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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Scott Moore, Fredericksburg, VA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to determine a plurality of block offsets indicating respective positions of data within a plurality of uncompressed data blocks respectively encoded to have variable sizes, to generate a block index file comprising the plurality of block offsets, a plurality of block positions and a plurality of block sizes respectively corresponding to the plurality of uncompressed data blocks, to compress data from at least one uncompressed data block of the plurality of uncompressed data blocks to at least one compressed data block of a plurality of compressed data blocks, and to utilize the block index file in connection with decompressing the compressed data.