Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.

Veritas Technologies LLC

Xu Jiang

Xianbo Zhang

Weibao Wu

Lei Song

Shuangmin Zhang

Kai Cao

Shengzhao Li

A method includes creating a deduplicated universal share (US) of data objects, which in turn includes receiving a US of the data objects, deduplicating the US, wherein deduplicating the US includes: hashing segments of the US to generate respective US segment fingerprints; comparing US segment fingerprints to fingerprints for respective segments held in deduplication storage in order to identify segments in the deduplication storage that equate to the US segments, respectively, of the US; storing identifiers that directly or indirectly identify locations, respectively, of the segments, respectively, in the deduplication storage that equate to the US segments, respectively, of the US. After creating the deduplicated universal share, a deduplicated backup of the US is created without reassembling the US from segments held in the deduplication storage, the creating the deduplicated backup including: creating a list that comprises copies of the stored identifiers, and storing the list.

Optimize backup from universal share

The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for updating server firmware in a server. The server is based on a Purley platform, a South Bridge chip of the server is electrically connected to a BMC through an ESPI bus, and the BMC is electrically connected to a firmware memory storing server firmware and a BMC memory through the ESPI bus. An embodiment of the method includes: performing a read operation on an image file for updating the server firmware stored in the BMC memory by using the BMC, when a preset upgrading condition is satisfied; and updating the server firmware stored in the firmware memory based on information read from the read operation. This embodiment achieves an updating of server firmware without additional hardware.

Method and apparatus for updating server firmware in server, and server

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