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Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2012
Applicants:

Lawrence Carter Blount, Tucson, AZ (US);

Rahul Fiske, Pune, IN;

Carl Evan Jones, Tucson, AZ (US);

Subhojit Roy, Pune, IN;

Inventors:

Lawrence Carter Blount, Tucson, AZ (US);

Rahul Fiske, Pune, IN;

Carl Evan Jones, Tucson, AZ (US);

Subhojit Roy, Pune, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 11/1456 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6026 (2013.01);
Abstract

Control of the discard of data from cache during backup of the data. In a computer-implemented system comprising primary data storage; cache; backup data storage; and at least one processor, the processor is configured to identify data stored in the primary data storage for backup to the backup data storage, where the identified data is placed in the cache in the form of portions of the data, and where the portions of data are to be backed up from the cache to the backup storage. Upon backup of each portion of the identified data from the cache to the backup storage, the processor marks the backed up portion of the identified data for discard from the cache. Thus, the backed up data is discarded from the cache right away, lessening cache pollution.


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