Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Alastair Michael Slater

Simon Pelly

Mark Robert Watkins

Andrew Michael Sparkes

Peter Thomas Camble

Matthew Jack Burbridge

Andrew Todd

Rhys Wyn Evans

Ieuan James Henry

Daniel Philip Coney

Graeme Hogg

Ian Stuart Duncan

Richard Phillip Mayo

David Malcolm Falkinder

Kevin Jones

Ian Peter Crighton

Andrew Damian Topham

Shiraz Billimoria

Aswin Jayaraman

Sijesh Thondapilly Balakrishnan

Sankar Ramasamy

John Butt

Dave Donaghy

Duncan Wakelin

Nandesh Kumar Palanisamy

Mayuri Jain

Gowtam Chandra Karanth

Girish Chandra Belmanu Sadananda

Santosh Bangalore Balaraj

Neil Andrew Fleming

Subramani Nallusamy

Garry Brady

Simon Riches

Benjamin L Simpson

Examples described herein relate to a data protection policy management system (DPPMS) for tuning a data protection policy in events of failures. The DPPMS may detect a failure associated with an application that is protected via the data protection policy that includes settings corresponding to parameters comprising one or more of copy tiers, a data retention interval and a recovery point objective (RPO) for the copy tiers. The DPPMS may determine a type of the failure associated with the application. Further, the DPPMS may select, based on the type of the failure, at least one parameter of the parameters to be tuned in response to detection of the failure. Moreover, the DPPMS may tune the settings corresponding to the at least one selected parameter to adapt the data protection policy.

Tuning data protection policy after failures

Examples described herein relate to management of containers in a storage system. Examples may receive a container specification corresponding to a container image. Examples may obtain the container image from a container repository and select storage volumes based on the container specification. Examples may execute one or more containers from the container image on a controller of the storage system within resource limits. Examples may dynamically select the controllers based on resource availability at the plurality of controllers. Examples may allow scheduling the execution of the containers at a specific controller at a predetermined time. The execution may include performing one or more batch operations on the storage volumes. Examples may further enable monitoring a status of the container and providing alerts in response to a detection of a failure event associated with the container.

Container management in a storage system

A backup system includes a processor and a machine-readable storage storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: access a plurality of blocks included in a block-based backup of a first snapshot of a storage volume; determine, based on the plurality of blocks of the block-based backup, a first filesystem stored on the storage volume, the first filesystem being a first type of filesystem; select, from a plurality of filters, a first filter associated with the first type of filesystem; determine a changed file in the first filesystem based on the selected first filter; and update a catalog to indicate that the changed file is associated with the first snapshot.

Catalog of files associated with snapshots

Examples may include a deduplication system threshold based on an amount of wear of a storage device. Examples may obtain an indication of an amount of wear experienced by at least one storage device storing a plurality of container indexes of a deduplication system, and may adjust a threshold of the deduplication system based on the amount of wear.

Deduplication system threshold based on a type of storage device

Examples may include backup objects for fully provisioned volumes with thin lists of chunk signatures. Examples may generate one or more full lists of chunk signatures for the address space of a fully provisioned volume, compare each chunk signature of the full list to an unused region chunk signature representing a chunk of an unused region of the fully provisioned volume, generate metadata to indicate used regions of the fully provisioned volume, based on the comparisons, and generate from the one or more full lists, one or more thin lists omitting all chunk signatures determined to match the unused region chunk signature.

Backup objects for fully provisioned volumes with thin lists of chunk signatures

Examples include threat-aware copy data management. Responsive to a request to back up data, a threat level may be determined. Where the threat level is determined to be less than a threat level threshold, a data port between a first and second network domain may be opened. Conversely, the request may be denied where the threat level is determined to be at or greater than the threat level threshold.

Threat-aware copy data management

Examples include selection of a remote object storage system for a deduplication data item. Some examples may include determination of an expected usage frequency for the deduplication data item, selection of a remote object cloud storage system based on the expected usage frequency for the data item, and provision of the deduplication data item to the selected remote object storage system for storage as an object in the selected remote object storage system.

Selecting cloud storage

Example embodiments relates to method and systems to restore content of a volume at a given point in time. A computing device to restore content of a volume at a given point in time comprises a physical processor and a machine-readable storage medium comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor that cause the computing device to command a storage array to select a surviving snapshot that was created at a nearest point in time to the given point in time among a set of surviving read-only snapshots of content of the volume stored in the storage array, command the storage array to create an editable surviving snapshot of the selected surviving snapshot, perform a delta function associated with a deduplication system, the deduplication system comprising a set of backup objects for the set of surviving read-only snapshots and a set of backup objects for a set of non-surviving read-only snapshots of content of the volume and restore content of the volume at the given point in time by commanding the storage array to modify the editable surviving snapshot based on an output of the delta function. Each of the backup objects within the deduplication system comprises a manifest, the manifest comprising a list of chunk signatures that represents chunks of data. The delta function is performed between a manifest of a backup object of the selected surviving snapshot and a manifest of a backup object of a snapshot created at the given point in time.

Restoration of content of a volume

A method is described herein. The method includes generating an allocation map for a backup. The method also includes storing the allocation map in a storage device. The method further includes reading the allocation map to skip reading empty blocks during storing of a file from the backup. The method also further includes and reading the allocation map to skip writing zeros to a formatted target disk during a restore session of a file from the backup.

Data restoration using allocation maps

In one example an updated snapshot delta value is computed upon occurrence of a new transaction. The new transaction is a data modification operation performed on data blocks of the storage device. Further, the delta value indicates at least one of volume of data modified since creation of a reference snapshot and number of transactions performed since the creation. Subsequently, the updated snapshot delta value is compared with a corresponding threshold value. The threshold value is at least one of a predetermined volume of data modified and a predetermined number of transactions. A snapshot action is subsequently performed based on the comparison.

Snapshot creation

Examples include the storage of format-aware filter format tracking states. Some examples include storage of a format tracking state for a format aware filter in a backup system in association with a backup object, access of the format tracking state from the backup system in response to detection of a potential continuation of a backup image, and applying the format-aware filter using the accessed format tracking state.

Storage of format-aware filter format tracking states

A deduplication engine is operable to select at least two chunks of data for deduplication and deduplicate the selected at least two chunks of data. A first store is operable to store the deduplicated chunks of data in a sequential manner, and a second store is operable to store at least a portion of at least one chunk of the deduplicated data in a manner to allow random access, where data is accessed via the first and/or second store.

Method and apparatus for random access of data stored in a sequential manner

In some examples, a local, non-tape based storage is to emulate tape storage elements at a first virtual tape library. A data structure associates first emulated tape storage elements of an emulated tape library with the storage elements in the first virtual tape library and associates second emulated tape storage elements of the emulated tape library with storage elements emulated by a remote storage in a second virtual tape library that is separate from the first virtual tape library, where the first virtual tape library is to present the emulated tape library that includes the storage elements of the first and second virtual tape libraries to a requesting entity that is separate from the first and second virtual tape libraries.

Virtual tape library

An apparatus, for connection to a storage device, comprising: a module for communication with a software application and operable to receive instructions to copy data to the storage device; a chunking and identifier generation module operable to receive the data, to process the data into one or more chunks, to generate a first chunk identifier, representative of the identity of a first of the or each chunk of data and, upon processing of the data, to initiate the issuance of a confirmation signal to the software application indicating that the data has been copied to the storage device; and an interface for communication with the storage device, wherein the interface is operable to send the first chunk identifier to the storage device, and to send the first chunk of data to the storage device upon receipt of a transfer instruction from the storage device.

Communicating chunks between devices

A virtual tape library includes a local, non-tape based storage, a store to store a data structure which associates emulated tape storage elements with the local storage or a remote storage, a first interface to provide access to the local storage, in response to tape library commands identifying emulated tape storage elements associated with the local storage, and a second interface to provide access to the remote storage, in response to tape library commands identifying emulated tape storage elements associated with the remote storage.

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Alastair Michael Slater