Commvault Systems, Inc.
STORING DATA TO CLOUD LIBRARIES IN CLOUD NATIVE FORMATS

Abstract:

Systems and methods that facilitate an information management system to store sets of data, such as backup or secondary copies of production data, to cloud storage libraries in a format native to the cloud storage library are disclosed. The systems and methods create storage policies for the sets of data that identify the cloud storage libraries to which the sets of data are to be stored. Via the storage policies, one or more media agents or servers transfer data blocks of the sets of data to software development kits (SDKs) associated with the cloud storage libraries. The SDKs add external metadata, such as metadata associated with a native format for the cloud library (e.g., Microsoft Azure or other cloud computing service), to the data blocks, before the data blocks are stored to the cloud storage library.