Patent ID: 8001346

Claim:
A method comprising: performing a set of operations on a first data store, wherein the set of operations is performed by a storage manager, the first data store comprises selected data written by an application, each operation of the set of operations on the first data store performs at least one of producing modified data from data in the first data store, and changing a configuration of the first data store, the producing the modified data occurs at a specified point in a sequential order on the first data store, the specified point is between a first respective point in the sequential order and a second respective point in the sequential order, the first respective point and the second respective point are adjacent in the sequential order, and the performing the set of operations occurs during copying of the selected data in the first data store to a second data store; and causing the set of operations to be performed on the second data store in the sequential order, wherein if the set of operations produces the modified data and a portion of the modified data is not included in the selected data copied to the second data store, the second data store comprises a copy of the portion of the modified data after the set of operations is performed on the second data store by virtue of the performing the set of operations on the second data store, and the causing the set of operations to be performed on the second data store comprises producing the copy of the modified data at the specified point in the sequential order on the second data store.