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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Tamir Ram, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 3/0671 (2013.01); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 16/1752 (2019.01);
Abstract
Provided herein is technology relating to data deduplication and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods and systems for determining an efficiently optimal size of data blocks to use for backing up a data source. Also provided herein are systems for identifying duplicate data in data backup applications.