Snapshot storage and management within an object store

A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions for performing a method, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:

• store snapshot data, of a snapshot of a file system of a computing device, into slots of an object, wherein the snapshot data is represented as a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes represented by cloud block numbers, wherein a cloud block number of a node comprises a sequence number used to uniquely identify the object and a slot number of a slot comprising a portion of the snapshot data represented by the node;
• create a metafile mapping block numbers, used by the computing device to reference the snapshot data, to cloud block numbers representing portions of the snapshot data stored within the slots of the object;
• store the object into an object store;
• and
• utilize the metafile to traverse the nodes within the data structure to identify the node assigned the cloud block number comprising the sequence number of the object and the slot number of the slot, and wherein the sequence number and the slot number of the cloud block number are used to access the portion of the snapshot data within the slot of the object.

A computing device comprising:

• a memory comprising machine executable code for performing a method;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• store snapshot data, of a snapshot of a file system of a computing device, into slots of an object, wherein the snapshot data is represented as a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes represented by cloud block numbers, wherein a cloud block number of a node comprises a sequence number used to uniquely identify the object and a slot number of a slot comprising a portion of the snapshot data represented by the node;
• create a metafile mapping block numbers, used by the computing device to reference the snapshot data, to cloud block numbers representing portions of the snapshot data stored within the slots of the object;
• store the object into an object store;
• and
• utilize the metafile to traverse the nodes within the data structure to identify the node assigned the cloud block number comprising the sequence number of the object and the slot number of the slot, and wherein the sequence number and the slot number of the cloud block number are used to access the portion of the snapshot data within the slot of the object.