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Deduplication has become essential in disk-based backup systems, but there have been few long-term studies of backup workloads. Most past studies either were of a small static snapshot or covered only a short period that was not representative of how a backup system evolves over time. For this paper, we collected 21 months of data from a shared user file system; 33 users and over 4,000 snapshots are...