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Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2020
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Qin Liu, Chengdu, CN;

Lanjun Liao, Chengdu, CN;

Assignee:

EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 16/137 (2019.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for storage management, an electronic device, and a computer program product. According to an exemplary implementation of the present disclosure, a method for storage management includes: generating, at a client, a first backup block for recovering first target data, the client backing up the first target data to a first server and backing up metadata of the first target data to a second server, and the client together with at least one other client and the second server maintaining the same backup chain which includes at least one backup block; adding the first backup block to the backup chain maintained by the client; and distributing the first backup block to the at least one other client and the second server to add the first backup block to the backup chain maintained by the at least one other client and the second server. Therefore, the storage security can be improved.


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