Inventors:
LINDSAY EUGENE SNIDER - ANN ARBOR MI, US
Assignee:
BARRACUDA NETWORKS, INC - CAMPBELL CA
International Classification:
G06F 12/14, G06F 17/30
US Classification:
713189, 707640, 707E17005
Abstract:
An apparatus to scale for multiple petabyte backup in redundant locations. Workload is automatically shared among many servers by a characteristic derived from the content itself. Duplicate storage is eliminated by checking for the existence or absence of simple files and appending client identification to files shared among multiple subscribers. Replication depends on simple atomic file operations rather than use of tables or databases. An efficient storage method for much larger quantities of data than conventional services.