Veritas Technologies LLC

Symantec Corporation

Dongxu Sun

Xianbo Zhang

Haibin She

Shuai Cheng

Wen Feng Jiang

Cheng Shan

Fanglu Guo

Haigang Wang

Chao Lei

Wenxin Wang

Cheng Hai Zhu

Hongxing Guan

Xinbao Jin

Chunzhong Zhang

Jinchang Zhang

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to optimize and manage fingerprint backward compatibility in deduplication backup computing systems. A new fingerprint is generated for a segment object stored in a data container based on a new fingerprinting process. A header file is modified by replacing an old fingerprint for the segment object based on an old fingerprinting process with the new fingerprint. An entry including information indicating an association between the old fingerprint and the new fingerprint is created in a fingerprint map file.

Fingerprint backward compatibility in deduplication backup systems

Techniques for data backup and restoration are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method including generating a first backup representing a database at a first time; after the first backup, generating a plurality of journal entries, each journal entry representing a change to the database made after the first time; and restoring the database from the first backup and the plurality of journal entries, the restored database including the changes represented by the entries.

Techniques for data backup and restoration

A computer-implemented method for parallel content-defined data chunking may include (1) identifying a data stream to be chunked, (2) splitting the data stream into a plurality of data sub-streams by alternatingly dividing consecutive bytes of the data stream among the plurality of data sub-streams, and (3) chunking, in parallel, each data sub-stream within the plurality of data sub-streams into a plurality of data segments using a content-defined chunking algorithm. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for parallel content-defined data chunking

A method for managing deduplication reference data may include (1) identifying multiple of data containers configured to store a plurality of deduplicated data segments that are referenced by multiple data objects within a deduplicated data system, (2) maintaining multiple reference databases including (i) a first reference database corresponding to a first subset of the data containers and (ii) a second reference database corresponding to a second subset of the data containers, the second subset differing from the first subset, (3) determining that a data object references at least one segment within a first data container within the first subset but does not reference any data segment within a second data container within the second subset and (4) updating the first reference database with information specifying that the data object references at least one data segment within at least one data container within the first subset of data containers.

Systems and methods for managing deduplication reference data

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