Patent ID: 9535802
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of data replica recovery, comprising: providing a distributed storage comprising a plurality of separate storage drives which are connected to a network, each one of said plurality of storage drives having a storage space divided to a plurality of contiguous storage segments and is electronically connected to a memory support component via a connection; storing a plurality of pairs of replicas in said plurality of storage drives, each said pair includes first and second replicas of a data unit from a plurality of data units of a dataset; detecting a storage failure of one of said plurality of storage drives, said storage drive stores a first member of a certain pair from said plurality of pairs; and forwarding a message indicative of said storage failure via said network to trigger a storage of a second member of said certain pair into a respective said memory support component electronically connected via a respective said connection to another of said plurality of storage drives.