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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2020
Veritas Technologies Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yaobin Qin, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Xianbo Zhang, Plymouth, MN (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are techniques that provide for deduplication in an efficient and effective manner. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include generating new feature information for one or more portions of a new backup image, generating first container range information by performing a container range calculation using the new feature information, generating existing feature information for one or more portions of an existing backup image, generating second container range information by performing the container range calculation using the existing feature information, determining a container range affinity between the first container range information and the second container range information, identifying at least one portion of the one or more portions of the existing backup image using a result of the determining, and prefetching the one or more fingerprints corresponding to the at least one portion of the one or more portions of the existing backup image.