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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Adam Brenner, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Jeffrey Norton, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Jennifer Starling, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Mark Malamut, Dana Pointe, CA (US);
Junxu Li, Pleasanton, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment is related to a method for performing garbage collection at a backup system, comprising: determining an object that is present in a preceding backup but is no longer present in a present backup when or after the present backup is made; associating an indicator indicative of the preceding backup with the object in response to the determination that the object is no longer present in the present backup; determining whether the object is to be deleted from the backup system based on the indicator and a policy during garbage collection; and deleting the object in response to determining that the object is to be deleted.