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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Michael P. Spertus, Chicago, IL (US);
Slava Kritov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Darrell M. Kienzle, Vienna, VA (US);
Hans F. Van Rietschote, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anthony T. Orling, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
William E. Sobel, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US);
Michael P. Spertus, Chicago, IL (US);
Slava Kritov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Darrell M. Kienzle, Vienna, VA (US);
Hans F. van Rietschote, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anthony T. Orling, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
William E. Sobel, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for efficient backups using dynamically shared storage pools in peer-to-peer networks comprises one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores instructions executable by the processors to implement a backup manager configured to dynamically subdivide a storage pool into one or more portions of storage currently designated for local backup data and one or more portions of storage currently designated for peer-to-peer (P2P) backup data. In response to local backup data received from a backup client, the backup manager may store the local backup data in a portion of the storage pool that is currently designated for local backup data. The backup manager may then generate a P2P version of the local backup data, e.g., by encrypting and/or redundancy encoding the local backup data, and transmit parts of the P2P version to each of one or more peer devices in the P2P network.