Patent ID: 8261033
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for physically moving digital data objects from a source location to at least one target location in a distributed storage system, wherein the digital data objects are stored in accordance with information lifecycle management policies, the method comprising: registering, with a storage grid control system that maintains data object lifecycle management information and storage node information in a distributed storage network, that at least one shuttle storage device is in local communication at a source location; duplicating, onto the at least one shuttle storage device, digital data objects in accordance with data object lifecycle management information associated with the digital data objects; registering, with the storage grid control system, the presence of the digital data objects duplicated onto the at least one shuttle storage device, wherein registering comprises obtaining verification object metadata that allows validation of the integrity of the digital data objects duplicated onto the at least one shuttle storage device; physically moving the at least one shuttle storage device from the source location to a target location; and registering, with the storage grid control system, that the at least one shuttle storage device is in local communication at the target location.