Patent ID: 11907116
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 1, comprising:
in response to determining that the volume group backup is to be deleted from the object store, reading a snapshot state for the volume group backup from the group level metafile;
in response to the snapshot state being set to indicate that the volume group backup is ready for deletion, determining whether a group volume state is marked as cloud dirty; and
in response to the group volume state being marked as cloud dirty and a flag within bookkeeping information not being set to a value that causes the garbage collection process to skip garbage collecting volume group backup objects of the volume group backup, updating volume group backup objects of the volume group backup within the object store and skipping the execution of the set of individual garbage collection workflows.