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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for data container group management in a deduplication system is provided. The method includes arranging a plurality of data container groups according to a plurality of file systems. A subset of the plurality of data container groups correspond to each of the plurality of file systems, each of the plurality of data container groups having a reference database, a plurality of data containers, and a data container group identifier (ID). The method includes performing a first backup process for a first client-policy pair with deduplication via a first one of the plurality of data container groups and performing a second backup process for a second client-policy pair with deduplication via a second one of the plurality of data container groups.