Even when a host does not give a write time to write data, consistency can
be kept among data stored in secondary storage systems. The present
system has plural primary storage systems each having a source volume and
plural secondary storage systems each having a target volume. Once data
is received from a host, each of the plural storage systems creates
write-data management information having sequential numbers and reference
information and sends, to one of the primary storage systems, the data,
sequential number and reference information. Each of the secondary
storage systems records reference information corresponding to the
largest sequential number among serial sequential numbers and stores, in
a target volume in an order of sequential numbers, data corresponding to
reference information having a value smaller than the reference
information based on the smallest value reference information among
reference information recorded in each of the plural secondary storage
systems.