Low-Profile Source-side Deduplication for Virtual Machine Backup

Authors: 

Daniel Agun and Tao Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Wei Zhang, Pure Storage Inc.

Abstract: 

This paper presents a source-side backup scheme with low-resource usage through collaborative deduplication and approximated lazy deletion when frequent virtual machine snapshot backup is required in a large-scale cloud cluster. The key ideas are to orchestrate multiround duplicate detection batches among machines in a partitioned asynchronous manner and remove most unreferenced content chunks with approximated snapshot deletion. This paper discusses the challenges, main design and strategies, and evaluation results.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {196344,
author = {Daniel Agun and Tao Yang and Wei Zhang},
title = {{Low-Profile} Source-side Deduplication for Virtual Machine Backup},
booktitle = {8th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 16)},
year = {2016},
address = {Denver, CO},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud16/workshop-program/presentation/agun},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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