SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILE COPY OF CLOUD METHOD AND DISK CLONING OVER WIDE AREA NETWORK

摘要

A system and method for cloud scheme-based file copying and disk cloning over a Wide Area Network (WAN) is provided. The system clones a disk of a server to one or more clients. The server includes a cloud cast server module, and an Internet Virtual Partition (IVP) server module. The cloud cast server module receives an image source drive, and designates the received image source drive as a cloud disk. The IVP server module is loaded into RAM, receives a disk management and control right, clones a file system, receives a request for mount, sends the file system and a file. Each of the clients includes a cloud cast client module for receiving the name of a drive and a mount request, requesting the IVP server module to mount the cloud disk, loading the received cloned file system, creating a virtual disk, and creating its own copy file system.