Improving restore performance in deduplication-based backup systems via a fine-grained defragmentation approach

Y Tan, B Wang, J Wen, Z Yan, H Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In deduplication-based backup systems, the removal of redundant data transforms the
otherwise logically adjacent data chunks into physically scattered chunks on the disks. This …

[PDF][PDF] FGDEFRAG: A fine-grained defragmentation approach to improve restore performance

Y Tan, J Wen, Z Yan, H Jiang, W Srisa-an… - Proc. 33th Symp. Mass …, 2017 - ranger.uta.edu
In deduplication-based backup systems, the removal of redundant data transforms the
otherwise logically adjacent data chunks into physically scattered chunks on the disks. This …

Building a high-performance fine-grained deduplication framework for backup storage with high deduplication ratio

X Zou, W Xia, P Shilane, H Zhang, X Wang - 2022 USENIX Annual …, 2022 - usenix.org
Fine-grained deduplication, which first removes identical chunks and then eliminates
redundancies between similar but non-identical chunks (ie, delta compression), could …

Improving restore performance of packed datasets in deduplication systems via reducing persistent fragmented chunks

Y Zhang, M Fu, X Wu, F Wang, Q Wang… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data deduplication, though being efficient for redundancy elimination in storage systems,
introduces chunk fragmentation which severely decreases restore performance. Rewriting …

Reducing fragmentation for in-line deduplication backup storage via exploiting backup history and cache knowledge

M Fu, D Feng, Y Hua, X He, Z Chen… - … on Parallel and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In backup systems, the chunks of each backup are physically scattered after deduplication,
which causes a challenging fragmentation problem. We observe that the fragmentation …

A fragmentation-aware redundancy elimination scheme for inline backup systems

Y Zhang, W Zhu, D Feng, W Huang, N Jiang… - Future Generation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Data deduplication is a widely employed technique in backup systems to enhance storage
efficiency by eliminating duplicate chunks. Delta compression is a technique that …

Reducing impact of data fragmentation caused by in-line deduplication

M Kaczmarczyk, M Barczynski, W Kilian… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Deduplication results inevitably in data fragmentation, because logically continuous data is
scattered across many disk locations. In this work we focus on fragmentation caused by …

Improving restore performance for in-line backup system combining deduplication and delta compression

Y Zhang, Y Yuan, D Feng, C Wang… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data deduplication, though being efficient in removing duplicate chunks, introduces chunk
fragmentation which decreases restore performance. Rewriting algorithms are proposed to …

Inde: An inline data deduplication approach via adaptive detection of valid container utilization

L Lin, Y Deng, Y Zhou, Y Zhu - ACM Transactions on Storage, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Inline deduplication removes redundant data in real-time as data is being sent to the storage
system. However, it causes data fragmentation: logically consecutive chunks are physically …

Accelerating restore and garbage collection in deduplication-based backup systems via exploiting historical information

M Fu, D Feng, Y Hua, X He, Z Chen, W Xia… - 2014 USENIX Annual …, 2014 - usenix.org
In deduplication-based backup systems, the chunks of each backup are physically scattered
after deduplication, which causes a challenging fragmentation problem. The fragmentation …