System and method for accelerating anchor point detection

A method, comprising:

• detecting one or more anchor locations of a data set by an anchor detection circuitry of a storage system, wherein the anchor detection circuitry is a hardware device dedicated for detecting the one or more anchor locations;
• transferring each anchor location to a de-duplication module executed by a processor of the storage system, wherein the anchor detection circuitry and the processor are separate hardware devices;
• determining if the anchor location is located in a database;
• if the anchor location is located in the database, performing data de-duplication for the data by examining a region surrounding the anchor location utilizing a first delta value identifying a number of consecutive bits before the anchor location and a second delta value identifying a number of consecutive bits after the anchor location to identify duplicate data;
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• in response to identifying the duplicate data, removing the duplicate data from the data set prior to storing the data set on a storage device operatively connected to the storage system.

A system, comprising:

• anchor detection hardware of a storage system that is configured to receive a data stream from a client and identify one or more anchor locations of the data stream, wherein the anchor detection hardware is a device dedicated to identifying each anchor location, the anchor detection hardware further configured to transfer the anchor location to a de-duplication module executed by a processor of the storage system, wherein the processor is a separate device from the anchor detection hardware;
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• the de-duplication module executed by the processor and configured to:
• (i) determine if the anchor location is located in a database, (ii) add the anchor location to the database if the anchor location is not located in the database, and (iii) identify duplicate data and remove the duplicate data if the anchor location is located in the database, where the duplicate data is identified by examining bits preceding the anchor location utilizing a first delta value and examining bits following the anchor location utilizing a second delta value.