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Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2024
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventor:

Weibing Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/1446 (2026.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01);
Abstract

An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to determine, for a given portion of data of a tiering-aware snapshot that is to be restored to a target storage system comprising a set of two or more storage tiers, tiering information characterizing a given storage tier in which the given portion of data was stored when the tiering-aware snapshot was taken. The at least one processing device is also configured to select, based at least in part on the determined tiering information and storage tier mapping policies mapping the given storage tier to the set of two or more storage tiers of the target storage system, one of the storage tiers of the target storage system. The at least one processing device is further configured to restore the tiering-aware snapshot to the target storage system by storing the given portion of data in the selected storage tier.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Zhang, Weibing. (2026). Tiering-aware snapshotting for multiple-tier storage systems (U.S. Patent No. 12748667). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12748667

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