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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mathew George, Redmond, WA (US);
David Matthew Kruse, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vladimir Petter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Roopesh C Battepati, Bellevue, WA (US);
Henry Gabryjelski, Sammamish, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein generally relate to maintaining a snapshot of a multitier distributed file system. A snapshot directory volume of a directory volume can be created at least in part by copying, to the snapshot directory volume, metadata of the directory volume. Based on a file access request, it can be determined whether the file has not been snapshotted. If not, a snapshot file record of the file, and associated with the snapshot directory volume.