International Business Machines Corporation
Cloud based store and restore with copy services

Abstract:

Provided are techniques for cloud based store and restore with copy services. A store command to transfer data from one or more tracks of a volume to cloud storage is received. With track services, data for the one or more tracks in the volume is retrieved by emulating a host read. With a cloud data movement engine, the data for the one or more tracks is converted to data for one or more objects. With the cloud data movement engine, the one or more objects are stored in the cloud storage.