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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2006
Carl F. Hagerstrom, Boulder, CO (US);
Thomas Dixon Hutchinson, Boulder, CO (US);
Shridhar Bharthulwar, Longmont, CO (US);
Paul E. Tinius, Broomfield, CO (US);
Carl F. Hagerstrom, Boulder, CO (US);
Thomas Dixon Hutchinson, Boulder, CO (US);
Shridhar Bharthulwar, Longmont, CO (US);
Paul E. Tinius, Broomfield, CO (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for locating and eliminating orphan files within a secondary storage device. The method includes identifying a secondary file on a secondary storage device, the secondary file being associated with file identification data, identifying a placeholder file on a primary storage device, the placeholder file being associated with an offline reference, and determining if the offline reference of the placeholder file validly references the secondary file.