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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2019
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Renen Hallak, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Asaf Levy, Tel Aviv, IL;
Avi Goren, Tel Aviv, IL;
Vladimir Zdornov, Kfar Saba, IL;
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A system and method for efficiently providing snapshots in storage systems. The method includes creating a plurality of snaplines for a storage system, each snapline having metadata including a timestamp and a status marker for each of a plurality of offset ranges, wherein each offset range corresponds to data stored in the storage system, the storage system including a plurality of compute nodes, wherein the timestamp of each snapline is a value of a global counter at a time of creation of the snapline, wherein the global counter is uniform among the plurality of compute nodes; and creating a snapshot based on the plurality of snaplines and a time value, wherein the snapshot indicates a snapline of the plurality of snaplines that is not to be deleted, wherein the timestamp of the snapline that is not to be deleted corresponds to the time value.