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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Biju Shanmugham Pillai, Pune, IN;
Nathan Rosenblum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Niraj Tolia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 9/544 (2013.01); G06F 9/545 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/183 (2019.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
Providing disaster recovery of a distribute file system metadata server as a service is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received to provide alternative access to a file system metadata server. A copy of a self-describing backup of the file system metadata server is obtained, e.g., from cloud-based storage. The backup is used to provide access to a read only instance of the file system metadata server.