forward-assembly-area · research

Forward assembly area

A forward assembly area buffers requested chunks in future restore-output order using advance knowledge from the backup recipe.

It retains useful chunks rather than treating whole fetched containers as the only caching unit. [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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