Patent 7774316 was granted and assigned to Oracle on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Reducing copy on write activity during snapshot backup processing in computer system. A snap shot of the data is created. As the backup of each file is successfully completed, the copy-on-write functionality for the file is disabled. As the backup of each other file is successfully completed, the copy-on-write for each other file is disabled.