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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2012
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Junxu Li, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30303 (2013.01); G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 17/30159 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for deduplicating a data stream based on boundary markers embedded therein are described. According to one embodiment, a data stream is received from a client having a sequence of a plurality of data objects, where to data stream represents a file or a directory of one or more files of a file system associated with the client. In response, the data stream is deduplicated into a plurality of deduplicated chunks in view of boundaries of the data objects.