US Patent 11994956 Adaptive throttling of metadata requests

An identification of a primary snapshot created for a primary storage system is received. A first request for a first metadata of a first file directory structure object associated with the primary snapshot is issued. A second request for data content of the first file directory structure object associated with the primary snapshot is determined to be sent to a recipient device based on a received response to the first request. A third request for a second metadata of a second file directory structure object associated with the primary snapshot is determined to be sent to the recipient device. Timing and ordering of issuance of a plurality of requests that at least include the second request and the third request to the recipient device are managed based on a determined performance metric of the recipient device and corresponding relative impact to the performance metric of the recipient device.