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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing a cache-based mechanism for snapshot management and creation in a data storage system. The techniques include creating, in a cache memory, a snapshot of a data volume such that the same data is shared between the data volume and the snapshot, and modifying, in the cache memory, one or more data pages among a plurality of data pages of the data volume. The techniques further include maintaining, on a list in the cache memory, copies of the data pages of the snapshot previously shared with the data volume prior to their modification, and maintaining, in a table in the cache memory, a copy record that contains information describing the relationship between the data volume and the snapshot. The techniques still further include flushing, in log order, the data pages of the snapshot and the copy record of the data volume and the snapshot to a storage device.