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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jimmy Zhibin Zhang, Chengdu, CN;
Yizhou Zhou, Chengdu, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for file backup and recovery. The method for file backup comprises receiving a file to be backed up and metadata describing an attribute of the file. The method further includes storing the metadata into a cache. The method further includes storing the file into a storage device for data backup. The method further includes receiving, from the storage device, information that indicates a storage position of the file in the storage device. Besides, the method further includes storing the information into the cache at an address that is determined based on the metadata.