US 11,947,808 B2
Expanding storage capacity for implementing logical corruption protection
Nedlaya Yazzie Francisco, Tucson, AZ (US); Theresa Mary Brown, Tucson, AZ (US); Nicolas Marc Clayton, Warrington (GB); David Fei, Tucson, AZ (US); and Terry O'Connor, High Peak (JP)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/669,014.
Application 17/669,014 is a division of application No. 16/989,647, filed on Aug. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,275,514.
Prior Publication US 2022/0164116 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0619 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
monitoring a current usage of a backup storage space for a storage volume;
comparing the current usage to a capacity threshold; and
conditionally increasing a size of the backup storage space, based on the comparing and a predetermined size limitation,
wherein the capacity threshold is stored in metadata as one of a plurality of parameters for the backup storage space.