A system and method for inserting checkpoints into a data stream and for restarting an asynchronous transmission of a data stream from a source file system to a destination file system is provided. The data stream can be a set of changes between a base snapshot and incremental snapshot of the source...http://www.google.de/patents/US7039663?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7039663 - System and method for checkpointing and restarting an asynchronous transfer of data between a source and destination snapshot