Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for reducing file-system fragmentation when restoring block-level backups utilizing an identification module, an optimization module, and a restore module
- Patent Title (中): 使用识别模块,优化模块和还原模块恢复块级备份时减少文件系统碎片的系统和方法
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Application No.: US13233562Application Date: 2011-09-15
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Publication No.: US09122692B1Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Chirag Dalal , Vivek Gupta
- Applicant: Chirag Dalal , Vivek Gupta
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Symantec Corporation
- Current Assignee: Symantec Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: ALG Intellectual Property, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F11/14

Abstract:
A method for reducing file-system fragmentation when restoring block-level backups may include (1) identifying a block-level backup stored on a backup storage device, (2) determining, by analyzing metadata contained within the block-level backup, that data contained within the block-level backup was physically arranged in a non-optimized manner on the volume from which the block-level backup was originally created due to file-system fragmentation, (3) identifying a request to restore the block-level backup to a target storage device in a block-by-block manner, (4) determining an optimized physical layout within a file system on the target storage device for the data contained within the block-level backup, and then (5) restoring the block-level backup to the target storage device block-by-block in accordance with the determined optimized physical layout in order to reduce the file-system fragmentation identified in the block-level backup. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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