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Tiering snapshots across different storage tiers

US12260106B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

PURE STORAGE, INC. · US

Inventors

Alexei Potashnik · Palo Alto, US
Yisha Zhao · San Jose, US
Subramaniam Periyagaram · San Jose, US
Dirk Meister · Mountain View, US
Cary Sandvig · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 22, 2022
Grant date	Mar 25, 2025
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 22, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/84
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Tiering snapshots across different storage tiers, including: creating a snapshot of a dataset, wherein the snapshot includes user data and metadata; offloading the snapshot of the dataset to a first storage level storage system; and migrating, in accordance with a lifecycle policy and via one or more copy offload operations, the snapshot from the first storage level storage system to a second storage level storage system.

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