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REPETITIVE DATA BLOCK DELETING SYSTEM AND METHOD

  • US 20140164339A1
  • Filed: 10/29/2013
  • Published: 06/12/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An analysis device in electronic communication with a plurality of servers in a server cluster, each server comprising data blocks of files, comprising:

  • at least one processor; and

    a storage system that stores one or more programs, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a repetitive data block deleting method, the method comprising;

    monitoring an available storage capacity of each storage space in each server of the server cluster;

    obtaining all hash lists from all databases of the server cluster when the available storage capacity of one storage space does not exceed a predetermined storage capacity;

    searching for each repetitive hash value from the obtained hash lists, and repetitive data blocks corresponding to the repetitive hash value;

    obtaining a maximum storage space according to a pointer corresponding to each repetitive data block, and sending the pointer corresponding to the repetitive data block in the maximum storage space to other servers; and

    deleting repetitive data blocks from the other servers.

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