Patent ID: 7734885

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a point-in-time copy operation command for a point-in-time copy of a point-in-time source volume to a point-in-time target volume while performing continuous copy operations from continuous copy source volumes to continuous copy target volumes via a continuous copy operation command; determining whether the point-in-time target volume is a first continuous copy source volume and whether the point-in-time source volume is a second continuous copy source volume; determining metadata corresponding to the point-in-time copy operation, in response to determining that the point-in-time target volume is the first continuous copy source volume and the point-in-time source volume is the second continuous copy source volume; generating, by a storage manager application, an enhanced continuous copy operation command by augmenting the continuous copy operation command with the determined metadata corresponding to the point-in-time copy operation; and applying the enhanced continuous copy operation command to perform point-in-time copy operations on the continuous copy target volumes based on the determined metadata to execute the point-in-time copy operation command while performing the continuous copy operations.