US 11,934,348 B2
Pushing a point in time to a backend object storage for a distributed storage system
Maor Ben Dayan, Tel Aviv (IL); Omri Palmon, Tel Aviv (IL); Liran Zvibel, Tel Aviv (IL); and Kanael Arditti, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Weka.IO Ltd., (IL)
Filed by Weka.IO Ltd, Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Oct. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/496,280.
Application 17/496,280 is a continuation of application No. 16/274,473, filed on Feb. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,163,723.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/700,439, filed on Jul. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0027312 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/128 (2019.01) [G06F 16/122 (2019.01); G06F 16/134 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for distributing storage, comprising:
taking a snapshot of a file system in a first data center;
storing the snapshot to a bucket in an object storage; and
activating a second data center, wherein:
the first data center is an active data center when the snapshot is taken,
the file system comprises a plurality of devices and a plurality of buckets,
each bucket in the plurality of buckets is associated with a group of devices selected from the plurality of devices, and
no two buckets in the plurality of buckets are associated with the same group of devices.