CREATION OF SYNTHETIC BACKUPS WITHIN DEDUPLICATION STORAGE SYSTEM BY A BACKUP APPLICATION

摘要

A deduplication storage system and a backup application create a synthetic backup. Metadata instructions are provided to the deduplication storage system. Each of the metadata instructions specifies the data segment of an originating backup and a designated location of the data segment in the synthetic backup. A set of metadata instructions is transformed into a transformed set of metadata instructions.