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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 17/3033 (2013.01); G06F 17/30489 (2013.01); G06F 17/30997 (2013.01);
Abstract
A deduplication storage system and a backup application create a synthetic backup. Metadata instructions are provided to the deduplication storage system. Each of the metadata instructions specifies the data segment of an originating backup and a designated location of the data segment in the synthetic backup. A set of metadata instructions is transformed into a transformed set of metadata instructions.