Providing and managing data protection by using incremental forever for storage to cloud object stores

US10896098B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Omar Vargas · New Smyrna Beach, US
• Avishai H. Hochberg · San Jose, US
• Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr. · Vonore, US
• David George Derk · معلمی نژاد, US
• Peter Tanenhaus · Vestal, US
• Stefan Bender · Engen, DE
• Michael S. Fruchtman · San Jose, US
• Vadzim I. Piletski · San Jose, US
• James P. Smith · Redwood City, US
• Christopher Zaremba · Endicott, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 15, 2019
• Grant date: Jan 19, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2201/84
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Provided are techniques for providing and managing data protection by using incremental forever for storage to cloud object stores. An incremental offload is performed by using one or more extents to identify blocks of data for a version of a virtual machine in operational recovery storage to be offloaded to a cloud object store, wherein each of the one or more extents identifies locations of the blocks of data. The blocks of data are converted to objects in an incremental forever data format. The objects are offloaded to the cloud object store. The details of the offloading of the objects are stored in a local database in the operational recovery storage. The local database is copied from the operational recovery storage to the cloud object store as a database copy.