ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,588, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Directory restore from remote object store" was invented by Tijin George (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Avanthi Rajan (Fremont, Calif.) and Sanhita Praveen Dhavale (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for restoring a directory from a snapshot of a volume backed up to an object store. The snapshot may be backed up from a node to the object store, such as a cloud computing environment. A user may want to restore the directory within the volume without having to restore the entire volume, which otherwise would waste computing resources, st...