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Controlling tape layout for de-duplication

  • US 20130148227A1
  • Filed: 12/07/2011
  • Published: 06/13/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer control the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

  • accessing a de-duplication data set, where the de-duplication data set includes one or more of, a set of sub-blocks produced by a de-duplication process, an index produced by the de-duplication process, the index storing index entries related to members of the set of sub-blocks, and re-creation information produced by the de-duplication process, the re-creation information storing data for re-creating a larger data block from two or more sub-blocks in the set of sub-blocks;

    identifying a de-duplication attribute associated with the de-duplication data set;

    determining a tape-specific layout for at least a portion of the de-duplication data set based, at least in part, on the de-duplication attribute; and

    controlling a tape drive to write at least a portion of the de-duplication data set to a first tape according to the tape-specific layout.

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