Data protection for stub files and cloud metadata
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsPrakash Venkatanarayanan, Upanshu Singhal, Anurag Bhatnagar
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Abstract
A method comprises requesting and receiving from a cloud mobility platform metadata for accessing one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage, and writing the metadata to at least one backup storage location. In the method, a plurality of stub files are read, the plurality of stub files corresponding to a plurality of files of the one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage. The plurality of stub files are written to the at least one backup storage location.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processing platform comprising a plurality of processing devices;
- said at least one processing platform being configured:
- to request and receive from a cloud mobility platform metadata for accessing one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage;
- to write the metadata to at least one backup storage location;
- to read a plurality of stub files corresponding to a plurality of files of the one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage;
- and
- to write the plurality of stub files to the at least one backup storage location.
A method comprising:
- requesting and receiving from a cloud mobility platform metadata for accessing one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage;
- writing the metadata to at least one backup storage location;
- reading a plurality of stub files corresponding to a plurality of files of the one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage;
- and
- writing the plurality of stub files to the at least one backup storage location;
- wherein the method is performed by at least one processing platform comprising at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing platform causes the at least one processing platform:
- to request and receive from a cloud mobility platform metadata for accessing one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage;
- to write the metadata to at least one backup storage location;
- to read a plurality of stub files corresponding to a plurality of files of the one or more file systems which have been tiered to cloud storage;
- and
- to write the plurality of stub files to the at least one backup storage location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.