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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Neeraj Bhutani, Pune, IN;
Kalyan Chakravarthy Gunda, Bangalore, IN;
Nitin Madan, Gurugram, IN;
Jayasekhar Konduru, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing storage devices includes, in response to a first determination that a first cloud storage device is inaccessible to a local storage device, obtaining metadata objects from a second cloud storage device, identifying, based on a sync time analysis, at least one metadata object of the metadata objects to be deleted, initiating the deletion of the at least one metadata object on a second cloud storage device, wherein the second cloud storage device is accessible to the local storage device, and updating, after initiating the deletion of the at least one metadata object, a namespace on a local storage device.