US 11,669,545 B2
Any point in time replication to the cloud
Jehuda Shemer, Kfar Saba (IL); Kfir Wolfson, Beer Sheva (IL); and Itay Azaria, Beer Sheva (IL)
Assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/107,393.
Application 17/107,393 is a continuation of application No. 16/170,809, filed on Oct. 25, 2018, granted, now 10,860,608, issued on Dec. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0081431 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/27 (2019.01) [G06F 16/215 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for replicating data, the method comprising:
replicating transactions made to a production system to a storage bucket in a cloud, the transactions including writes to the production system;
generating a metadata stream associated with the transactions, wherein each entry in the metadata stream corresponds to a transaction stored in the storage bucket; and
storing the metadata stream in a metadata storage in the cloud when the metadata stream reaches a threshold size, wherein the production data is continuously replicated without maintaining a replica volume in a remote storage.