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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nils Haustein, Mainz, DE;
Dominic Mueller-Wicke, Mainz, DE;
Alexander Saupp, Mainz, DE;
Daniel J. Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, an independent file server connected to a wide area network (WAN) includes local file storage, a file system comprising information about directory structures, path, and file names of other file systems of other file servers connected to the WAN, and a deduplication module configured to communicate with other deduplication modules of other file servers connected to the WAN, perform data deduplication of data objects stored locally in the local file storage, and create and maintain a deduplication table mapping data chunks of locally stored data objects to identification characteristics and storage location in the local file storage, and construction plans of data files including locations of data chunks within the data files. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are presented according to more embodiments.