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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
May. 03, 2010
Randy Yen-pang Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Mulam, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Jung, San Jose, CA (US);
Randy Yen-pang Chou, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Mulam, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Jung, San Jose, CA (US);
Panzura, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Snapshots of data and metadata associated with the data are created. The snapshot of the data is separate from the snapshot of the associated metadata. The snapshot of metadata is maintained locally in a cloud network attached storage (NAS) and globally. The snapshot of data is maintained according to an accessibility metric. Snapshot of metadata is transmitted from a backup remote site to a cloud network attached storage (NAS). A request for data corresponding to the metadata is received from the cloud NAS. The requested data is not available at the cloud NAS. The requested data is transmitted from the backup site to the cloud NAS.