Inventors:
Jeff Pritchard - Fremont CA
Norman Fong - San Francisco CA
Assignee:
FWB Software LLC - Menlo Park CA
International Classification:
G06F 1202
Abstract:
The present invention is a method, apparatus and computer program product for accelerating the copying of computer data that is repetitively copied from a source computer data storage medium to a destination computer data storage medium. The invention involves identifying situations in which computer data is repetitively copied and monitoring the copying, including noting the locations where the data is stored on the source computer storage medium. Without physically moving the data on the source computer storage medium, the data to be copied is gathered into groups based on the data locations in such a manner that future copying of this data from this source storage medium will be accelerated. During future copying of this data, the groups of data are copied together to the destination computer storage medium before the copying of the data is required. The data to be copied is grouped based on the physical copying characteristics of the source computer storage medium.