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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2013
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for a mass centralization approach to full image cloning of multiple computing devices is provided. The system includes a server, and a computing device that includes a disk for data storage, wherein the disk includes a plurality of blocks within a plurality of regions. The system also includes a processor programmed to map each file stored on the disk to at least one of the plurality of blocks, for one or more of the plurality of regions of the disk, determine that a number of files appearing in sequential blocks exceeds a predefined threshold number of files, perform a continuous scan of the one or more of the plurality of regions of the disk occupied by the number of files appearing in sequential blocks exceeding the predefined threshold number of files, and send a copy of the files scanned from the one or more plurality of regions of the disk to the server.