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US 12,210,417 · App. 18/333,678 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Metadata-based recovery of a dataset

Inventors: Constantine Sapuntzakis (Palo Alto, CA); Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, CA); Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
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Patent No.
US 12,210,417
App. No.
18/333,678
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Servicing I/O operations in a cloud-based storage system, including: receiving, by the cloud-based storage system, a request to write data to the cloud-based storage system; storing, in solid-state storage of the cloud-based storage system, the data; storing, in object storage of the cloud-based storage system, the data; detecting that at least some portion of the solid-state storage of the cloud-based storage system has become unavailable; identifying data that was stored in the portion of the solid-state storage of the cloud-based storage system that has become unavailable; retrieving, from object storage of the cloud-based storage system, the data that was stored in the portion of the solid-state storage of the cloud-based storage system that has become unavailable; and storing, in solid-state storage of the cloud-based storage system, the retrieved data.

Claims (35)

1. A method comprising:

storing tracking metadata outside a first tier of cloud storage for data stored within the first tier of cloud storage; and

in response to a data loss event at the first tier of cloud storage, identifying, using the tracking metadata, a consistent set of data from among functioning storage repositories of the first tier of cloud storage, including:

identifying a timestamp associated with the data loss event; and

identifying a consistent set of storage operations, directed to the data, based on the identified timestamp.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a storage operation directed to the data is committed based on storage of the tracking metadata.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying the consistent set of data by identifying one or more storage operations, directed to the data, that were committed to a second tier of cloud storage.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising identifying the consistent set of data by identifying the one or more storage operations that were committed to the second tier of cloud storage within a given time period.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first tier of cloud storage has one or more better performance characteristics than the second tier of cloud storage.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, into one or more storage repositories of the first tier of cloud storage, multiple portions of data corresponding to multiple storage operations.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data loss event is a failure of one or more of the cloud computing instances.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the functioning storage repositories include one or more cloud computing instances created to replace the failed one or more of the cloud computing instances.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the functioning storage repositories include one or more solid-state storage devices.

10. A cloud-based storage system including:

one or more cloud computing instances providing a first tier of cloud storage;

a second tier of cloud storage; and

one or more storage controller applications, each storage controller application executing in a cloud computing instance, wherein the one or more storage controllers are configured to:

storing tracking metadata outside a first tier of cloud storage for data stored within the first tier of cloud storage; and

in response to a data loss event at the first tier of cloud storage, identifying, using the tracking metadata, a consistent set of data from among functioning storage repositories of the first tier of cloud storage, including:

identifying a timestamp associated with the data loss event; and

identifying a consistent set of storage operations, directed to the data, based on the identified timestamp.

11. The cloud-based storage system of claim 10 , wherein a storage operation directed to the data is committed based on storage of the tracking metadata.

12. The cloud-based storage system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more storage controllers are configured to identify the consistent set of data by identifying one or more storage operations, directed to the data, that were committed to a second tier of cloud storage.

13. The cloud-based storage system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more storage controllers are configured to identify the consistent set of data by identifying the one or more storage operations that were committed to the second tier of cloud storage within a given time period.

14. The cloud-based storage system of claim 11 , wherein the data loss event is a failure of one or more of the cloud computing instances.

15. The cloud-based storage system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more storage controllers are configured to receive, into one or more storage repositories of the first tier of cloud storage, multiple portions of data corresponding to multiple storage operations.

16. A cloud-based storage system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of:

storing tracking metadata outside a first tier of cloud storage for data stored within the first tier of cloud storage; and

in response to a data loss event at the first tier of cloud storage, identifying, using the tracking metadata, a consistent set of data from among functioning storage repositories of the first tier of cloud storage, including:

identifying a timestamp associated with a data loss event; and

identifying the consistent set of storage operations, directed to the data, based on the identified timestamp.

17. The cloud-based storage system of claim 16 , wherein a storage operation directed to the data is committed based on storage of the tracking metadata.

18. The cloud-based storage system of claim 16 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to carry out the steps of: identifying the consistent set of data by identifying one or more storage operations, directed to the data, that were committed to a second tier of cloud storage.

19. The cloud-based storage system of claim 16 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to carry out the steps of: identifying the consistent set of data by identifying one or more storage operations that were committed to a second tier of cloud storage within a given time period.

20. The cloud-based storage system of claim 16 , wherein the cloud-based storage system includes cloud-based object storage.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2023
From: SAPUNTZAKIS, CONSTANTINE; NEELAKANTAM, NAVEEN; KARR, RONALD
To: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Reel/Frame 064186/0035 →
Continuity (10)
Continuation 17350850 · Jun 17, 2021
Continuation 16526552 · Jul 30, 2019
Continuation In Part 16353775 · Mar 14, 2019
Provisional Application 62878877 · Jul 26, 2019
Provisional Application 62875947 · Jul 18, 2019
Provisional Application 62769277 · Nov 19, 2018
Provisional Application 62768952 · Nov 18, 2018
Provisional Application 62692602 · Jun 29, 2018
Provisional Application 62643641 · Mar 15, 2018
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