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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2010
Applicants:

Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);

Teng Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);

Teng Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 17/30153 (2013.01); G06F 17/30221 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for transferring data from a source tier to a target tier. In some embodiments, this may include dividing an object stored in the source tier into a plurality of segments, determining if the target tier is missing at least one of the segments, writing the missing segments to the target tier, and deleting the object from the source tier. In some embodiments, the object's metadata is updated to indicate that the object is in the target tier.


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