A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data...http://www.google.de/patents/US20080243879?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20080243879 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING REDUNDANT INFORMATION
