US Patent 12079069 Distributed journal for high performance continuous data protection

A set of data changes to a storage associated with a source system is received. for recording the received set of changes, one or more data logs among a plurality of data logs stored in different nodes of a storage system is dynamically selected based at least in part on a dynamic analysis of metrics of the different nodes of the storage system. The data changes are logged in the one or more selected data logs. A reference to a portion of the one or more selected data logs associated with storing the data changes is recorded in a locator register log.