Patent Document ID: 9152327
Application ID: 13903752
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for producing a dataset image of a dataset comprising a plurality of storage objects, the system comprising: a plurality of storage systems that store the dataset, each storage system storing one or more storage objects of the dataset; and a plurality of volume image manager engines, each volume image manager engine executing and residing on a storage system in the plurality of storage systems, each volume image manager engine of a storage system configured for: identifying one or more storage objects of the dataset that are stored to the storage system; begin producing one or more storage object images for the one or more identified storage objects; for each identified storage object, determining whether producing the storage object image for the identified storage object is a success or failure, wherein producing the dataset image of the dataset is successful if a storage object image is successfully produced for each storage object of the dataset; and upon determining that the storage object image of one or more identified storage objects is a failure, initiating a cleanup procedure for deleting one or more storage object images on the storage system that are successfully produced for one or more identified storage objects.