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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2010
Methods and systems for optimizing a process of archiving at least one block of a virtual disk image
Ian Pratt, Cambridge, GB;
Jeffrey Muir, Logan Village, AU;
Ian Pratt, Cambridge, GB;
Jeffrey Muir, Logan Village, AU;
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
A system for optimizing a process of archiving at least one block of a virtual disk image includes a file system analysis component and an archiving component. The file system analysis component executes on a first physical computing device and identifies a plurality of blocks storing data comprising a file in a virtual disk image file. The archiving component executes on the first physical computing device, identifies a difference disk file storing an identification of a modification to the identified plurality of blocks storing data comprising the file, determines whether to archive the file, and transmits, to a second physical computing device, the plurality of blocks storing data comprising the file.