Streams, Requests and Responses

Streams, Requests and Responses

Metadata Streams: A format for file system metadata.

Client devices keep an indexed copy of all metadata, but this can be rebuilt from streamed metadata stored on a cloud datastore such as OneDrive or Google Drive.  The streamed metadata allows for incremental updates from hierarchical data stores with minimal overhead. For the most simple metadata capture, 1M files can be stored within 100MB. 

Requests and Responses: A control method to prepare and transmit metadata.

Client devices can send instructions for data capture when the target hosts are offline. Instructions are kept on the same cloud datastore location as metadata and are processed when the host is next online.

See Data Exchange Overview to see what metadata Puddler captures from the file system. Puddler can determine the following data from this metadata for each file and folder.

 - Whether it is a System or Application file

 - Logical ownership information for the file (Project, Client etc...) 

 - Positive Redundancy score (increases each time the file is copied to an independent location)

 - Negative Redundancy score (increases each time the file is copied within an independent location).

 - Repository Links (if it is linked to a repository such as github, adobe creative cloud or onedrive etc).