{
  "slug": "forward-assembly-area",
  "term": "Forward assembly area",
  "aliases": [],
  "definition": "A forward assembly area buffers requested chunks in future restore-output order using advance knowledge from the backup recipe.",
  "note": "It retains useful chunks rather than treating whole fetched containers as the only caching unit. [lillibridge2013]",
  "related": [
    "deduplication",
    "chunk-fragmentation"
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "lillibridge2013",
      "title": "Mark Lillibridge, Kave Eshghi and Deepavali Bhagwat. Improving Restore Speed for Backup Systems that Use Inline Chunk-Based Deduplication. USENIX FAST 2013, pp. 183-197; sections 2-4.",
      "url": "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast13/fast13-final124.pdf",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11"
    },
    {
      "id": "hesela-dedup-restore",
      "title": "Deduplication ratio does not predict restore cost",
      "url": "https://hesela.com/analyses/deduplication-restore-fragmentation/",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11"
    }
  ],
  "status": "research",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [],
  "supersedes": [],
  "supersededBy": [],
  "firstSeen": null,
  "lastSeen": null,
  "updated": "2026-10-11"
}