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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Pooja Sarda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ilya Langouev, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
VMware Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for deleting a snapshot of a data set archived in cloud/object storage are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can identify data blocks that are part of the snapshot and are referred to by an incremental child snapshot of the snapshot. The computer system can further create a new metadata object that includes metadata entries for the identified data blocks, each metadata entry comprising an identifier of the incremental child snapshot, an identifier of a data block, and an identifier of a data object of the incremental child snapshot where the data block is stored. The computer system can then associate the new metadata object with the incremental child snapshot in the cloud/object storage.