公开(公告)号：US20200285612A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-10

申请号：US16296453

申请日：2019-03-08

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Tijin George ,  Jagavar Nehra ,  Roopesh Chuggani ,  Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar ,  Atul Ramesh Pandit ,  Kiyoshi James Komatsu

IPC: G06F16/11 ,  G06F16/14 ,  G06F16/907

Abstract: Techniques are provided for managing objects within an object store. An object is maintained within an object store. The object comprises a plurality of slots. Each slot is used to store a unit of data accessible to applications hosted by remote computing devices. The object comprises an object header used to store metadata for each slot. A determination is made that the object is a fragmented object comprising an in-use slot of in-use data and a freed slot from which data was freed. The object is compacted to retain in-use data and exclude freed data as a rewritten object.

公开(公告)号：US20200285410A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-10

申请号：US16296424

申请日：2019-03-08

Applicant: NetApp Inc.

Inventor： Tijin George ,  Jagavar Nehra ,  Roopesh Chuggani ,  Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F16/11 ,  G06F16/22

Abstract: Techniques are provided for incremental snapshot copy to an object store. A list of deallocated block numbers of primary storage of a computing device are identified. Entries for the list of deallocated block numbers are removed from a mapping metafile. A list of changed block numbers corresponding to changes between a current snapshot of the primary storage and a prior copied snapshot copied from the primary storage to the object store is determined. The mapping metafile is evaluated using the list of changed block numbers to identify a deduplicated set of changed block numbers without entries within the mapping metafile. An object, comprising data of the deduplicated set of changed block numbers, is transmitted to the object store for storage as a new copied snapshot.