Cumulus: Filesystem backup to the cloud

  • Authors:
  • Michael Vrable;Stefan Savage;Geoffrey M. Voelker

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Cumulus is a system for efficiently implementing filesystem backups over the Internet, specifically designed under a thin cloud assumption—that the remote datacenter storing the backups does not provide any special backup services, but only a least-common-denominator storage interface. Cumulus aggregates data from small files for storage and uses LFS-inspired segment cleaning to maintain storage efficiency. While Cumulus can use virtually any storage service, we show its efficiency is comparable to integrated approaches.