Method and apparatus for differential backup in a computer storage system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6366986
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09107679

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Method and apparatus for backup in restoring data on a computer system are disclosed. Backups may include a differential backup. In a differential backup, only some (but not all) segments of data in a primary copy are backed up. The segments may correspond to physical segments of storage in a storage system, rather than logical level segments of storage. The method and apparatus may include constructing a complete copy of a backed up element from an earlier fill backup and a subsequent differential backup.

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EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC176 SOUTH STREET HOPKINTON MA 01748

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Gill, Alton Harvard, MA 4 590
St, Pierre Edgar J Fall River, MA 9 719

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