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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2023
Netapp Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Palak Sharma, Haryana, IN;
Cheryl Marie Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qinghua Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkateswarlu Tella, Bangalore, IN;
NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for mirroring objects between object stores hosted by cloud providers that have different data layout requirements. An object may be stored within a first object store that supports a fix offset format where uncompressed data is stored according to fixed offsets and boundaries within fixed size objects. A mirroring operation may be used to mirror the object to a second object store that supports a unified object format where compressed data can be stored at non-fixed offsets and boundaries within variable sized objects. The mirroring operation selects a compression algorithm and compresses the object on the fly to create a mirrored object having the unified object format. The mirrored object, populated with the compressed data and slot header metadata comprising compression information for how to locate and decompress the data in the mirrored object, is stored into the second object store.