US Patent 11924354 Data center recovery pod systems and methods

A method for ingesting data artifacts into a recovery pod may include: identifying, by a first controller, a data artifact for ingestion; pulling, by the first controller, the data artifacts into the first datastore; confirming, by second controller, that a first airlock between the first zone and the second zone and a second airlock between a third zone and the second zone are closed; opening, by the second controller, the first airlock; identifying, by the second controller, the data artifacts in the first datastore; pulling, by the second controller, the data artifacts into a second datastore; confirming that the first airlock and the second airlock are closed; opening, by the second controller, the second airlock; identifying, by a third controller, the data artifacts in the second zone datastore; pulling, by the third controller, the data artifacts into a third zone datastore; and closing, by the second controller, the second airlock.