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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2016
Datto, Inc., Norwalk, CT (US);
John Fury Christ, Norwalk, CT (US);
Austin McChord, Norwalk, CT (US);
Datto, Inc., Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) apparatus to provide network-based data storage for client computing devices (e.g., in a local area network). One or more file-based logical storage area (LSA) shares are created in memory of the NAS apparatus, wherein each file-based LSA share originally is configured as one of 'private access' (only certain users have access to a private file-based LSA share) or 'public access' (any user on the LAN that can access the NAS appliance can also access the public file-based LSA share). At some later time, the file-based LSA share may be reconfigured to go from private-to-public access or public-to-private access (each file-based LSA share has a “reversible privacy setting”). In one example, object permissions for each object (file or folder) already stored on the LSA share prior to the access reconfiguration are updated on an object-by-object basis to ensure appropriate access to all legacy objects after the access reconfiguration.