APPAREIL ET PROCÉDÉ DE STOCKAGE DE BLOCS DE DONNÉES REÇUS EN TANT QUE BLOCS DE DONNÉES DÉDUPLIQUÉS

摘要

The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for storing received data blocks (300) as deduplicated data blocks (104), the apparatus (100) being configured to maintain a plurality of containers (101), wherein a reference (105) to a container is unique within the apparatus (100) and each container (101) includes one or more data segments (102) and segment metadata (103) for each data segment (102), the segment metadata (103) including a segment identifier (110) and a segment reference (108), wherein the segment identifier (110) is unique within the container (101) and the segment reference (108) is unique within the apparatus (100), maintain a plurality of deduplicated data blocks (104) storing received data blocks (300), wherein each deduplicated data block (104) includes a plurality of identified container references (105), wherein a container reference identifier (105i) is unique within the deduplicated data block (104), and an ordered list of one or more segment indicators (106).