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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Deepak Agarwal, Redmond, WA (US);
Anurag Windlass Gupta, Atherton, CA (US);
Jakub Kulesza, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A distributed data warehouse system maintains data blocks on behalf of clients, and stores primary and secondary copies of data blocks on different disks or nodes in a cluster. The data warehouse system may back up data blocks in a key-value backup storage system. In response to a query targeting a data block previously stored in the cluster, the data warehouse system may determine whether a consistent, uncorrupted copy of the data block is available in the cluster (e.g., by applying a consistency check). If not (e.g., if a disk or node failed), the data warehouse system may automatically initiate an operation to restore the data block from the backup storage system, using a unique identifier of the data block to access a backup copy. The target data may be returned in a query response prior to restoring primary and secondary copies of the data block in the cluster.