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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2009
Stephan Kurt Gipp, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Jeremy Howard Wartnick, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Stephan Kurt Gipp, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Jeremy Howard Wartnick, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for managing data compression in a data protection system are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for managing data compression comprising receiving a request for a data operation, analyzing a data management policy associated with the request, identifying a compression level associated with one or more portions of data in the data operation based at least in part on the data management policy, and identifying a compression algorithm to be used for one or more portions of data in the data operation.