Local Networked Storage Linked to Remote Cloud System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in interacting with networked storage systems due to lack of computing skills and other challenges, making it hard to ensure data safety from hazards like fires, and existing solutions do not provide seamless access and reliability.
Innovation Solution
A networked file system with a metadata service is employed, combining local network-attached storage with remote cloud storage, allowing users to access files from any device with network connectivity, providing faster performance and reliability through a storage management application that manages data on both local and remote systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users directly interact with remote networked storage systems, then data safety and reliability are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to lack of computing skills
Solution Approach 1:
A local networked storage device is introduced as an intermediary between users and remote cloud storage systems. This local device provides a simplified interface that users can easily interact with, while automatically managing data synchronization and safety protocols with the remote storage system, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and data safety
2Ease of operation
If local network-attached storage is used, then ease of operation is improved, but data safety deteriorates due to local hazards like fires
Solution Approach 1:
The storage system is segmented into two separate components: local network-attached storage for user accessibility and remote cloud storage for safety. The local device handles user interactions and provides fast access, while the remote system provides geographic separation and protection from local hazards, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and data safety
3Reliability
If remote cloud storage is used, then data safety is improved, but access speed deteriorates compared to local storage
Solution Approach 1:
Data is preliminarily cached and stored locally in the network-attached storage device before remote access is needed. This allows users to access data quickly from local storage, while the system simultaneously maintains synchronized copies in remote cloud storage for safety, thus resolving the contradiction between access speed and data safety
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AI summary
Disclosed are various embodiments for a local networked storage that is linked to a remote networked storage system. In one embodiment, among others, a computing device obtains a request to read a file stored in a remote networked storage system in association with a user account, in which the request is obtained from a client computing device through a local network. The computing device also determines that the file is stored in a local cache and receives the latest file signature associated with the file from the remote networked storage system. The computing device can determine that the latest file signature corresponds to a file signature of the file stored in the local cache and can determine that the file stored in the local cache corresponds to the latest version of the file. The file can be sent through the local network.