In creating replicas to data of a storage volume in a storage system, a
technique in which labor for issuing instructions from a processor can be
reduced and then data consistency of related volumes can be secured is
provided. A single replication instruction including designated
information is issued for data of a logical unit serving as a copy source
and a copy destination from a replication-control program of the
processor. A control unit of the storage system possesses a
multiple-replica creation program which enables a processing for creating
replicas while securing the data consistency when an access such as a
update or reference occurs for a group including a plurality of pairs of
copy-source volume and copy-destination volume based on reception of the
instruction. A save volume is provided to identify and control data save
and update state by copy-source save information and copy-destination
update information at the shared memory.