摘要 |
A high efficiency portable archive implements a storage system running on a virtualization layer to archive point-in-time versions of a raw data set and the storage system itself as a virtual system on archive media. The high efficiency portable archive can be implemented in a variety of computer architectures. The virtualization layer presents to the storage system a normalized representation of a set of hardware based on components of the computer architecture, shielding the storage system from the actual hardware components of the computer architecture. The storage system and point-in-time versions of the raw data set can be restored to any hardware subsystem that supports the virtual system. |