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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Nimrod Shani, Raanana, IL;
Tal Zohar, Tel Aviv, IL;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for recovering data, the method comprising: retrieving a mapping structure associated with a volume in a storage system, the mapping structure including a plurality of entries, each entry including a respective short hash digest of a data block stored in the volume and an identifier of a location where the data block is stored; generating a plurality of long hash digests, each of the long hash digests being generated based on a different one of a plurality of data blocks that are stored in the storage system; comparing each of the long hash digests to a short hash digest of a missing data block, and adding the long hash digest to a candidate list when the long hash digest matches the short hash digest of the missing data block; generating a filtered candidate based on the candidate list; and recovering the missing data.