Patent ID: 9619479
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method to partition a deduplication pool, the method comprising: determining that an amount of data in a plurality of data containers of the deduplication pool has reached a data capacity threshold; comparing each data container of the plurality of data containers with at least one other of the plurality of data containers as to amount of shared data; and grouping, based on results of the comparing, the plurality of data containers into a plurality of groups of data containers, with at least two data containers in each group having an amount of data segments referenced by a set of backup images or files greater than or equal to a data sharing threshold, and a further at least two data containers in differing groups having an amount of data segments referenced by a further set of backup images or files less than the data sharing threshold, wherein at least one method operation is executed through a processor.