Enhanced Performance for Data Duplication

In a storage system, a method for data duplication comprising:

• managing storage of a plurality of objects, which require data duplication for increased resiliency;
• maintaining a requisite number of copies for each of the plurality of objects as a minimum number of data duplications sets defined by a system policy by monitoring one or more events in the storage system against predetermined data duplication criteria, also defined within the system policy as conditions for performing added data duplication;
• and
• based on an occurrence of the one or more events, managing storage of one or more additional copies over the requisite number of copies of one or more of the plurality of objects.

A computer-programmable product comprising computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, such that when executed by a computer processor cause it to perform the following:

• receive an object for storage in a storage system, which requires data duplication for increased resiliency;
• create a requisite number of copies of the object as a minimum number of data duplication sets defined by a system policy;
• manage storage of the object and the requisite number of copies by monitoring one or more events in the storage system against predetermined data duplication criteria, also defined with the system policy as conditions for performing added data duplication;
• and
• based on an occurrence of the one or more events, create and manage storage of one or more additional copies of the object over the requisite number of copies.