SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPLICATING FILE SYSTEMS IN REMOTE OBJECT STORAGES

A system and method for replicating a file system. The method includes: copying a portion of the file system from a first storage, wherein the at least a portion of the file system includes underlying data and metadata, wherein the metadata includes pointers to the underlying data and metadata defin...

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Main Authors COSTEFF, Hillel, LEVY, Asaf, DAHAN, Or, WEISSMAN, Asaf, ZDORNOV, Vladimir
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 11.02.2021
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A system and method for replicating a file system. The method includes: copying a portion of the file system from a first storage, wherein the at least a portion of the file system includes underlying data and metadata, wherein the metadata includes pointers to the underlying data and metadata defining a file system hierarchy; partitioning the copied data of the file system into a plurality of blobs, wherein the plurality of blobs includes a plurality of data blobs and a plurality of metadata blobs, wherein each data blob includes at least one portion of the underlying data; generating a plurality of filter objects based on the copied data, wherein each filter object includes a list of metadata blobs; and storing the plurality of blobs and the plurality of filter objects in a second storage.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202017081153