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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sunil Yadav, Bangalore, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing generating backups of host data. The method may include obtaining a backup request associated with an asset of the host; obtaining file system metadata associated with the asset from a file system metadata repository; identifying data in a disk of the host associated with the asset based the file system metadata; obtaining file size and cluster size associated with each file of a file system using the file system metadata; making a determination that the actual size and cluster size do not match for at least one file of files of a file system; identifying a difference between the actual size and the cluster size of the at least one file of files; identifying the difference as slacks; generating slack metadata associated with the slacks; and providing slack data and the slack metadata to post processing engines.