Policy-based hierarchical data protection in distributed storage

A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the at least one machine to:

• parse an information lifecycle management policy that indicates a first data protection scheme to apply at a first level of a distributed storage system at object ingest based on object metadata and a second data protection scheme to apply at the first level of the distributed storage system based on a time parameter;
• identify an object to which the information lifecycle management policy applies based on metadata of the object, wherein the object has already been protected in the distributed storage system according to the first data protection scheme,
• determine that the time parameter is satisfied, and
• instruct multiple storage nodes of the distributed storage system to store the object according to the second data protection scheme at the first level.

A computing device comprising:

• a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of applying data protection;
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• parse, by a first computing device, an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy that indicates a first data protection scheme to apply at a first level of a distributed storage system at object ingest based on object metadata and a second data protection scheme to apply at the first level of the distributed storage system based on a time parameter;
• identify an object, which is already stored in the distributed storage system according to the first data protection scheme, to which the information lifecycle management policy applies and for which the time parameter is satisfied;
• and
• cause, by the first computing device, multiple storage nodes of the distributed storage system to store the object according to the second data protection scheme at the first level.