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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2016
Storagecraft Technology Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
Nathan S. Bushman, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Scott Barnes, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Thomas Russell Shreeve, Draper, UT (US);
STORAGECRAFT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Draper, UT (US);
Abstract
Creating hybrid image backups of a source storage. In one example embodiment, a method for creating one or more hybrid image backups of a source storage may include comparing hashes of allocated blocks stored in the source storage at a first point in time to hashes of blocks stored in a deduplication system to determine whether each of the allocated blocks is in a first set of blocks that are stored in the deduplication system or in a second set of blocks that are not stored in the deduplication system; associating locations of the blocks in the first set of blocks stored in the source storage with locations of the corresponding blocks stored in the deduplication system; determining whether the deduplication system is in a read-only state or in a writable state; and in response to the deduplication system being in the read-only state: storing the blocks in the second set of blocks in an image backup separate from the deduplication system; associating locations of the blocks in the second set of blocks stored in the source storage with locations of the corresponding blocks stored in the image backup; and defining a full hybrid image backup of the source storage at the first point in time as a combination of the first set of blocks stored in the deduplication system and the second set of blocks stored in the image backup.