Symantec Corporation

Veritas US IP Holdings LLC

Murtaza S Ghiya

Manoj Chaudhari

Kishor S Ghait

Various systems and methods for selection of files for archival or deduplication operations are disclosed. For example, one method involves analyzing a plurality of files, where the analyzing is based on one or more archiving policies. The method involves determining whether a first file of the plurality of files is to be archived or deduplicated, where the determining is based at least on the analysis. The method also involves, in response to a determination to archive the first file, generating a request to archive the first file.

Selection of files for archival or deduplication

Various systems and methods for detecting and resolving a reparse point conflict are disclosed. One method involves receiving a request to perform a file operation, where the file operation includes generation of a reparse point associated with the file. In response to receipt of the request, the method includes detecting a reparse point conflict, where detection of the reparse point conflict indicates a conflict between the reparse point and an existing reparse point. In response to detection of the reparse point conflict, the reparse point conflict is resolved.

Resolving reparse point conflicts when performing file operations

A computer-implemented method for archiving files in distributed replication environments may include 1) identifying a distributed file system replication environment, the distributed file system replication environment including a plurality of computing systems configured to replicate changes made to files within each computing system in the plurality of computing system to each other computing system in the plurality of computing systems, 2) identifying a request to archive a file located on a computing system within the distributed file system replication environment, and, in response to the request 3) identifying a virtual storage layer mapped to a location of the file and 4) archiving the file by creating a placeholder file for the file in the virtual storage layer mapped to a location of the file on the computing system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

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