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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment is related to a method for backing up a shared volume using parallel save streams, comprising: taking a snapshot of the shared storage volume that is shared across a plurality of nodes; identifying used blocks on the shared storage volume based on the snapshot; organizing logically the used blocks into extent sets, wherein a number of extent sets is equal to a number of the plurality of nodes; assigning the extent sets to the plurality of nodes, wherein each of the plurality of nodes is assigned one extent set; and streaming, by each of the plurality of nodes, a respective extent set to a backup apparatus, wherein the plurality of nodes stream the extent sets in parallel.