US 2018/0121297 A1 · HISTORICAL NETWORK DATA-BASED SCANNING THREAD GENERATION

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein address the need to more efficiently backup a network-based storage environment that may be remote from a primary storage environment. For example, embodiments herein can provide a more efficient backup of a storage managed by a third-party entity. To improve the backup process, embodiments herein may optimize the number of scanning threads that are used to identify files that are to be backed up by, for example, analyzing the characteristics of the network and/or the network storage system to determine a number of scanning threads that will enable faster scanning of the network storage system while at the same time not overburden or be slowed down by a network between the network-based storage environment and the primary storage environment.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of performing multi-threaded scanning of a network storage system, the computer-implemented method comprising:

as implemented by a data agent within a remote storage access system comprising one or more hardware processors and configured with specific computer-executable instructions,
determining whether historical network characteristics of a network used to communicate with a network storage system exist;
and
in response to determining that the historical network characteristics exist:
accessing the historical network characteristics;
selecting an amount of scanning threads to initiate based at least in part on the historical network characteristics, wherein the scanning threads are configured to scan a network storage repository of the network storage system to identify files to backup;
triggering initiation of the amount of the scanning threads at the network storage system;
and
initiating scanning of the network storage repository using the scanning threads to identify the files to backup.

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Historical network data-based scanning thread generation

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Abstract

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