Resuming copying of snapshots from a storage system to cloud storage

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;

the at least one processing device being configured:

to detect a request to resume copying of at least one snapshot of a storage volume from a storage system to cloud storage of at least one cloud external to the storage system;

to determine an original snapshot differential for the at least one snapshot, the original snapshot differential comprising differential data of the storage volume on the storage system that forms the at least one snapshot;

to obtain checkpointing information for the at least one snapshot from a checkpointing cache associated with the at least one processing device, the checkpointing information characterizing a status of copying one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage;

to generate a resume snapshot differential for the at least one snapshot, the resume snapshot differential comprising at least one portion of the at least one snapshot that is to be copied to the cloud storage, the at least one portion of the at least one snapshot that is to be copied to the cloud storage being determined based at least in part on a comparison of the original snapshot differential with the checkpointing information characterizing the status of copying the one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage; and

to resume copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage utilizing the resume snapshot differential.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein detecting the request to resume copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage comprises obtaining, from the cloud storage, information characterizing one or more cloud object parts stored in the cloud storage for the at least one snapshot.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the information characterizing the one or more cloud object parts stored in the cloud storage for the at least one snapshot comprises, for a given one of the one or more cloud object parts, a size of the given cloud object part.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the checkpointing information characterizing the status of copying the one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage comprises, for a given one of the one or more portions of the at least one snapshot, a size of the given portion of the at least one snapshot.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein generating the resume snapshot differential comprises comparing the size of the given cloud object part and the size of the given portion of the at least one snapshot and, responsive to determining that the size of the given cloud object part is not the same as the size of the given portion of the at least one snapshot, removing the given cloud object part from the cloud storage and adding the given portion of the at least one snapshot to the resume snapshot differential.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein generating the resume snapshot differential comprises comparing the size of the given cloud object part and the size of the given portion of the at least one snapshot and, responsive to determining that the size of the given cloud object part is the same as the size of the given portion of the at least one snapshot, updating the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache to indicate that the given portion of the at least one snapshot has been successfully copied to the cloud storage and removing the given portion of the at least one snapshot from the resume snapshot differential.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one snapshot is copied from the storage system to the cloud storage utilizing at least one multi-part upload associated with at least one upload identifier, and wherein detecting the request to resume copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage comprises obtaining a multi-part upload list from the cloud storage, the multi-part upload list indicating at least a subset of the portions of the at least one snapshot that have been copied to the cloud storage.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one processing device is further configured, prior to generating the resume snapshot differential, to validate a state of the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein validating the state of the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache comprises, for a given portion of data of the at least one snapshot:

determining whether the given portion of the data of the at least one snapshot is at least one of cached in the checkpointing cache, uploaded to the cloud storage, and committed to the cloud storage; and

determining whether metadata associated with the given portion of the data of the at least one snapshot is at least one of cached in the checkpointing cache, uploaded to the cloud storage, and committed to the cloud storage.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one processing device is further configured to store, in the checkpointing cache, at least a portion of data of the at least one snapshot copied from the storage system.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage comprises compressing the differential data of the storage volume, and wherein the portion of the data of the at least one snapshot stored in the checkpointing cache comprises compressed data of the at least one snapshot.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage comprises encrypting the differential data of the storage volume, and wherein the portion of the data of the at least one snapshot stored in the checkpointing cache comprises encrypted data of the at least one snapshot.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the storage volume comprises one of:

at least one of one or more storage devices of the storage system;

a given logical unit provided by at least one of the one or more storage devices;

a consistency group comprising a set of two or more logical units provided by at least one of the one or more storage devices; and

an access-restricted storage group comprising a set of two or more logical units provided by at least one of the one or more storage devices where access to the storage group is limited to one or more designated host devices.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one processing device is implemented external to the storage system.

15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device to perform steps of:

detecting a request to resume copying of at least one snapshot of a storage volume from a storage system to cloud storage of at least one cloud external to the storage system;

determining an original snapshot differential for the at least one snapshot, the original snapshot differential comprising differential data of the storage volume on the storage system that forms the at least one snapshot;

obtaining checkpointing information for the at least one snapshot from a checkpointing cache associated with the at least one processing device, the checkpointing information characterizing a status of copying one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage;

generating a resume snapshot differential for the at least one snapshot, the resume snapshot differential comprising at least one portion of the at least one snapshot that is to be copied to the cloud storage, the at least one portion of the at least one snapshot that is to be copied to the cloud storage being determined based at least in part on a comparison of the original snapshot differential with the checkpointing information characterizing the status of copying the one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage; and

resuming copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage utilizing the resume snapshot differential.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the at least one snapshot is copied from the storage system to the cloud storage utilizing at least one multi-part upload associated with at least one upload identifier, and wherein detecting the request to resume copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage comprises obtaining a multi-part upload list from the cloud storage, the multi-part upload list indicating at least a subset of the portions of the at least one snapshot that have been copied to the cloud storage.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the program code when executed further causes the at least one processing device, prior to generating the resume snapshot differential, to perform the step of validating a state of the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache, wherein validating the state of the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache comprises, for a given portion of data of the at least one snapshot:

determining whether the given portion of the data of the at least one snapshot is at least one of cached in the checkpointing cache, uploaded to the cloud storage, and committed to the cloud storage; and

determining whether metadata associated with the given portion of the data of the at least one snapshot is at least one of cached in the checkpointing cache, uploaded to the cloud storage, and committed to the cloud storage.

18. A method comprising steps of:

detecting a request to resume copying of at least one snapshot of a storage volume from a storage system to cloud storage of at least one cloud external to the storage system;

determining an original snapshot differential for the at least one snapshot, the original snapshot differential comprising differential data of the storage volume on the storage system that forms the at least one snapshot;

obtaining checkpointing information for the at least one snapshot from a checkpointing cache associated with at least one processing device, the checkpointing information characterizing a status of copying one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage;

generating a resume snapshot differential for the at least one snapshot, the resume snapshot differential comprising at least one portion of the at least one snapshot that is to be copied to the cloud storage, the at least one portion of the at least one snapshot that is to be copied to the cloud storage being determined based at least in part on a comparison of the original snapshot differential with the checkpointing information characterizing the status of copying the one or more portions of the at least one snapshot to the cloud storage; and

resuming copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage utilizing the resume snapshot differential;

wherein the method is performed by the at least one processing device, the at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the at least one snapshot is copied from the storage system to the cloud storage utilizing at least one multi-part upload associated with at least one upload identifier, and wherein detecting the request to resume copying of the at least one snapshot from the storage system to the cloud storage comprises obtaining a multi-part upload list from the cloud storage, the multi-part upload list indicating at least a subset of the portions of the at least one snapshot that have been copied to the cloud storage.

20. The method of claim 18 further comprising, prior to generating the resume snapshot differential, validating a state of the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache, wherein validating the state of the checkpointing information in the checkpointing cache comprises, for a given portion of data of the at least one snapshot:

determining whether the given portion of the data of the at least one snapshot is at least one of cached in the checkpointing cache, uploaded to the cloud storage, and committed to the cloud storage; and

determining whether metadata associated with the given portion of the data of the at least one snapshot is at least one of cached in the checkpointing cache, uploaded to the cloud storage, and committed to the cloud storage.