Partially replicating a snapshot between storage systems

• Main Authors: Colgrove, John, Noonan, Terence, Chawla, Deepak, Perneti, Vinay, Su, Jikui
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.06.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Synchronizing snapshots between storage systems, including: receiving, from a source storage system, an identification of a snapshot to be replicated to a destination storage system; identifying, from hint information stored on the destination storage system, a most recent version of the snapshot th...