Patent ID: 9740415
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method, in a storage system, for object-based storage management, the method comprising: detecting, by an object-based storage management mechanism in an object in a storage of the storage system, an event being performed on or by the object; determining, by the object-based storage management mechanism, whether the event meets with one or more rules in a set of rules that identify a backup or replication needing to be performed; responsive to determining that the event meets with one or more rules in the set of rules that identify the backup or replication needing to be performed, indicating, by the object-based storage management mechanism, in a backup/replication field in metadata of the object that the backup and/or replication of the object needs to be performed, wherein the indication in the backup/replication field in the metadata of the object causes one or more portions of the object to be backed up and/or replicated; and indicating, by the object-based storage management mechanism, in a data/metadata backup/replication field of the metadata of the object at least one of only data associated with the object needs to be backed up and/or replicated, only a section of the data associated with the object needs to be backed up and/or replicated, only the metadata associated with the object needs to be backed up and/or replicated, or both the data and the metadata associated with the object needs to be backed up and/or replicated.