SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPANDING STORAGE SPACE OF NETWORK DEVICE

• US 20140280387A1
• Filed: 03/07/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIN, JUI-LUNG, CHEN, PEI-LING, WU, ZHEN-HONG, CHANG, KUO-YUAN
• Application Number:
  US14/200,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20140280387A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/812
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1827 Management specifically adapted to NAS management of storage area networks [SAN] G06F3/067

Abstract

A method for expanding storage space using a network device is provided. The method sets a storage order of cloud storage space for expanding a local storage space in the network device. When target data is received from the network device, the method stores the target data into the local storage space when a size of an available storage space of the local storage space is more than or equal to a preset value. When the available storage space is less than the preset value, the method copies the earliest stored data of the local storage space into one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the storage order, and deletes the copied data from the local storage space. The next earliest stored data is copied if the available storage space is still less than the preset value.

Claims

1. A method for expanding storage space using a network device, the network device being connected to a cloud network which provides a plurality of cloud storage spaces, the method comprising:

setting a storage order of the plurality of cloud storage spaces for expanding a local storage space in the network device;

receiving target data from the network device;

determining whether a size of an available storage space of the local storage space is less than a preset value; and

storing the target data into the local storage space when the size of the available storage space is more than or equal to the preset value;

or

copying the earliest stored data in the local storage space to one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the storage order and deleting the copied data in the local storage space when the size of the available storage space is less than the preset value, until the size of the available storage space is great than or equal to the preset value.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing access information of one or more available cloud storage spaces in the cloud network as a configuration file of the network device, the access information comprising an access path, an access account, and an access password of each of the one or more available cloud storage spaces.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the storage order is set according to an order of the access information of the one or more available cloud storage spaces in the configuration file, the copied data is stored into the one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the order of the access information, and the copied data is stored into a next specified cloud storage space if a current specified cloud storage space is not enough for storing the copied data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storage order is set according to a storing method of dividing the copied data into a plurality of parts according to a number of the plurality of cloud storage spaces, and storing each part of the copied data into each of the plurality of cloud storage spaces.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storage order is set according to a storing method of storing the copied data into a specified cloud storage space corresponding to a preset time period which current time belongs to.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preset value is set dynamically according to a size of the target data, and a size of the preset value is great than or equal to the size of the target data.

7. A network device, the network device being connected to a cloud network which providing a plurality of cloud storage space, the network comprising:

at least one processor; and

a storage device storing one or more programs, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations of;

setting a storage order of the plurality of cloud storage spaces for expanding a local storage space in the network device;

receiving target data from the network device;

determining whether a size of an available storage space of the local storage space is less than a preset value; and

storing the target data into the local storage space when the size of the available storage space is more than or equal to the preset value;

or

copying the earliest stored data in the local storage space to one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the storage order and deleting the copied data in the local storage space when the size of the available storage space is less than the preset value, until the size of the available storage space is great than or equal to the preset value.

8. The network device according to claim 7, further comprising:

storing access information of one or more available cloud storage spaces in the cloud network as a configuration file of the network device, the access information comprising an access path, an access account, and an access password of each of the one or more available cloud storage spaces.

9. The network device according to claim 8, wherein the storage order is set according to an order of the access information of the one or more available cloud storage spaces in the configuration file, the copied data is stored into the one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the order of the access information, and the copied data is stored into a next specified cloud storage space if a current specified cloud storage space is not enough for storing the copied data.

10. The network device according to claim 7, wherein the storage order is set according to a storing method of dividing the copied data into a plurality of parts according to a number of the plurality of cloud storage spaces, and storing each part of the copied data into each of the plurality of cloud storage spaces.

11. The network device according to claim 7, wherein the storage order is set according to a storing method of storing the copied data into a specified cloud storage space corresponding to a preset time period which current time belongs to.

12. The network device according to claim 7, wherein the preset value is set dynamically according to a size of the target data, and a size of the preset value is great than or equal to the size of the target data.

13. A non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a network device, cause the processor to perform a method for expanding storage space using the network device, the network device being connected to a cloud network which provides a plurality of cloud storage space, the method comprising:

setting a storage order of the plurality of cloud storage spaces for expanding a local storage space in the network device;

receiving target data from the network device;

determining whether a size of an available storage space of the local storage space is less than a preset value; and

storing the target data into the local storage space when the size of the available storage space is more than or equal to the preset value;

or

copying the earliest stored data in the local storage space to one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the storage order and deleting the copied data in the local storage space when the size of the available storage space is less than the preset value, until the size of the available storage space is great than or equal to the preset value.

14. The storage medium according to claim 13, further comprising:

storing access information of one or more available cloud storage spaces in the cloud network as a configuration file of the network device, the access information comprising an access path, an access account, and an access password of each of the one or more available cloud storage spaces.

15. The storage medium according to claim 14, wherein the storage order is set according to an order of the access information of the one or more available cloud storage spaces in the configuration file, the copied data is stored into the one or more specified cloud storage spaces according to the order of the access information, and the copied data is stored into a next specified cloud storage space if a current specified cloud storage space is not enough for storing the copied data.

16. The storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the storage order is set according to a storing method of dividing the copied data into a plurality of parts according to a number of the plurality of cloud storage spaces, and storing each part of the copied data into each of the plurality of cloud storage spaces.

17. The storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the storage order is set according to a storing method of storing the copied data into a specified cloud storage space corresponding to a preset time period which current time belongs to.

18. The storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the preset value is set dynamically according to a size of the target data, and a size of the preset value is great than or equal to the size of the target data.