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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2005
Peter Armorer, Mississauga, CA;
Anselmo Barrero, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Gardner, San Jose, CA (US);
Roger W. Kilday, Livermore, CA (US);
Ken Owens, Burlington, CA;
Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Burlington, CA;
Suavek Zajac, Oakville, CA;
Peter Armorer, Mississauga, CA;
Anselmo Barrero, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Gardner, San Jose, CA (US);
Roger W. Kilday, Livermore, CA (US);
Ken Owens, Burlington, CA;
Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Burlington, CA;
Suavek Zajac, Oakville, CA;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Performing a backup is disclosed. One or more directories at a lowest level in a file directory associated with a storage is identified. The identified lowest level directories are divided into one or more directory groups. The backup of the directory groups is performed using parallel threads until all directory groups have been backed up.