Patent ID: 8527455

Claim:
A computerized system for seeding replication comprising: one or more computer processors; a computer memory coupled to the one or more computer processors to provide the one or more computer processors with instructions configured to: select one or more files stored on a deduplicated storage system to be replicated, wherein the selected one or more files do not include all files stored on the deduplicated storage system; determine one or more segments referred to by the selected one or more files, wherein one segment of the one or more segments is used to reconstruct more than one file of the selected one or more files; create a data structure that is used to indicate that at least the one or more segments are to be replicated, wherein the data structure is created based at least in part on the determined one or more segments referred to by the selected one or more files; determine that a candidate segment of a plurality of candidate segments stored on the deduplicated storage system is to be replicated based at least in part on the data structure, wherein the plurality of candidate segments are processed based at least in part on a storage location of the plurality of candidate segments in the deduplicated storage system.