摘要 |
In a system that includes a back-up subsystem comprising back-up media, a mass storage subsystem connected to the back-up subsystem, and a host connected to the mass storage subsystem, the mass storage subsystem, as master and independent of the host, requests the restore operation by providing to the back-up subsystem, as slave, data identifiers identifying multiple data items to be transferred during the restore operation. The back-up subsystem determines its preferred ordering for retrieval of the requested plurality of data items from the back-up media. The back-up subsystem provides the requested data items to the mass storage subsystem in the determined preferred order in a plurality of iterations, each iteration identified by a data item identifier for the data item to be transferred in the current iteration. |