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Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2014
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 13/4013 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for generating synthetic backups and for consolidating a chain of related backups. The chain of related backups is merged on the fly to create a backup stream. A block allocation table (BAT) may be identified for each backup to be consolidated into a synthetic backup, and BAT entries from each backup may be merged or combined to create a new BAT table associated with the synthetic backup. The data included in the related backups may be reformatted on the fly from big endian to little endian or vice versa. The backup stream is stored on a target device or volume.


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