Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refresh
US11188500B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 10, 2019 |
| Grant date | Nov 30, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 1, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/568
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
With a forever incremental snapshot configuration and a typical caching policy (e.g., least recently used), a storage appliance may evict stable data blocks of an older snapshot, perhaps unchanged data blocks of the snapshot baseline. If stable data blocks have been evicted, restore of a recent snapshot will suffer the time penalty of downloading the stable blocks for restoring the recent snapshot. Creating synthetic baseline snapshots and refreshing eviction data of stable data blocks can avoid eviction of stable data blocks and reduce the risk of violating a recovery time objective.
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