US 11,704,279 B2
Event driven migration, recall, and data placement optimization based on custom metadata
Joseph Dain, Vail, AZ (US); Nilesh Prabhakar Bhosale, Pune (IN); and Takeshi Ishimoto, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/661,914.
Prior Publication US 2021/0124713 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/119 (2019.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0682 (2013.01); G06F 16/122 (2019.01); G06F 16/164 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving custom metadata for several data items, the data items having system metadata associated therewith;
selecting, based on the custom metadata, some of the data items to move between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system; and
moving the selected data item(s) between the primary storage system and the secondary storage system, wherein the custom metadata is used to control placement of the data item(s) in the secondary storage system; and
adding the custom metadata to a database,
wherein receiving the custom metadata includes receiving events for the data items,
wherein the custom metadata and the events are added to the same database.