Patent 11221778 was granted and assigned to Pure Storage on January, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Preparing data for deduplication including in response to receiving a request to transfer data from a source storage system to a target storage system, accessing, by the source storage system, a compressed data block; generating, by the source storage system, a padded compressed data block by padding the compressed data block to conform to a fixed block size, wherein the fixed block size is greater than a size of the compressed data block; and sending, by the source storage system, the padded compressed data block to the target storage system.