US 11,947,683 B2
Replicating a storage system
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US); Constantine Sapuntzakis, Palo Alto, CA (US); and John Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/064,531.
Application 18/064,531 is a continuation of application No. 16/937,970, filed on Jul. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,531,487.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/944,617, filed on Dec. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0107685 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 21/602 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/0623 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method implemented by a computing device comprising a processor and a memory device, the method comprising:
detecting that a first storage system has become unavailable;
identifying a second storage system that contains data that was stored on the first storage system;
identifying a replacement storage system; and
retrieving, by the replacement storage system, the data from the second storage system, wherein the data retrieved by the replacement storage system is encrypted, and wherein the replacement storage system replaces the first storage system.