Backup to the Future: How Workload and Hardware Changes Continually Redefine Data Domain File Systems

201718 citationsJournal Article

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Yamini Allu · DELL (United States)

Fred Douglis · DELL (United States)

Mahesh Kamat · DELL (United States)

Philip Shilane · DELL (United States)

Hugo Patterson

Ben Zhu

Abstract

Disk-based backup systems use data deduplication to replace redundant data chunks with references. These systems initially supported workloads from their tape-based predecessors, but changes to hardware and applications have forced them to adapt in interesting and challenging ways.

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Advanced Data Storage Technologies Cloud Data Security Solutions Caching and Content Delivery

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Published in: Computer

Volume 50, Issue 7, pp. 64-72

DOI: 10.1109/mc.2017.187

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Backup to the Future: How Workload and Hardware Changes Continually Redefine Data Domain File Systems

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