Patent attributes
One example method includes by a data source entity, querying a data storage entity to determine if it has adequate under-utilized resources to perform a portion of a data seeding process. When the data storage entity indicates to the data source entity that the data storage entity has adequate unused resources to perform the portion of the data seeding process, initiating, by the data source entity, the data seeding process, and the data seeding process includes transmitting data from the data source entity to the data storage entity for storage in a temporary file at the data storage entity, and the data that is transmitted is data that was targeted to be protected by a data protection process. Finally, the data protection process may be performed so that only data not already present at the data storage entity is transmitted by the data source entity to the data storage entity.
