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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vishal Bajpai, Roseville, MN (US);
Preeti Agarwal, Maharashtra, IN;
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for leveraging data-deduplication capabilities of file systems may include (1) detecting a backup operation that backs up at least one data segment maintained by a file system capable of performing data deduplication on a computing device, (2) querying the file system for file-system data that includes (i) the data segment to be backed up during the backup operation, (ii) at least one unique identifier that identifies the data segment, and (iii) at least one file-specific segment map that identifies a position of the data segment relative to at least one other data segment within a file, (3) receiving the file-system data from the file system in response to the query, and then (4) providing the file-system data to a deduplication server to facilitate backing up the file based at least in part on the file-system data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.