Zerto Assigned Patent
Consistency verification of replicated data in recovery system
By Francis Pelletier | November 29, 2019 at 2:21 pmZerto Ltd., Herzliya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,481,988) developed by Mamluk, Ori, K. Givaat Haim Meuchad, Israel, for “system and method for consistency verification of replicated data in a recovery system.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for verifying consistency of data in a recovery system may include a target disk configured to store a replica of a protected storage system from before a time window and a journal including data and metadata of write operations to the protected storage system that occurred during the time window. The verification may include storing in the journal a first bit string that uniquely identifies a selected chunk of the protected storage system from a specified time point, and when the specified time point goes past the limit of the time window, comparing the first bit string with a second bit string that uniquely identifies a corresponding chunk that is stored in the target disk.”
The patent application was filed on January 24, 2017 (15/413,426).