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Distributed data rebuilding

  • US 10,579,450 B2
  • Filed: 11/13/2018
  • Issued: 03/03/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for use in a distributed storage network (DSN) storing sets of encoded data slices in sets of storage units, the method comprising:

  • transmitting, from a first storage unit to a second storage unit, a rebuild request associated with an encoded data slice to be rebuilt, the encoded data slice to be rebuilt being one encoded data slice of a set of encoded data slices;

    generating, by the second storage unit, a rebuilt encoded data slice in response to the rebuild request;

    transmitting the rebuilt encoded data slice from the second storage unit to the first storage unit; and

    storing the rebuilt encoded data slice in the first storage unit.

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