container-capping · research

Container capping

Container capping limits the old containers referenced by a backup segment by storing selected duplicate chunks again.

A locality-versus-space trade-off, not a cap on total repository containers. [lillibridge2013]

Relations

related

deduplication, chunk-fragmentation

Citations

1. 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. (accessed 2026-10-11)
2. Deduplication ratio does not predict restore cost (accessed 2026-10-11)

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