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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2016
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Satish Visvanathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Debasish Garai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yamini Allu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Balaji Subramanian, Fremont, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for performing backup operations using a deduplicated storage system is presented. A data segment can be received at a deduplicated storage system. A fingerprint can be calculated for the data segment. The fingerprint and the offset can be stored in a reference cache on the deduplicated storage system. A metadata segment can be loaded from the deduplicated storage system. The metadata segment can be updated to include the fingerprint. Backup operations may include storage and management using a tree structure.