De-duplication in File Sharing Network

Redundant data transfer over a network is one of the important reasons of traffic congestion today. In this paper, we proposed an efficient and secure file sharing model using de-duplication technology to resolve it. A file sharing based de-duplication system reduce bandwidth and storage at both client and server machine. It does not download duplicate blocks that already have been downloaded. To achieve the security of client data, three-tier architecture is proposed in this work. For this purpose SHA-1 hash function is being used, in which 8KB block of data is converted into a 20 bytes digest. Thus the design presents a dramatic reduction in storage space requirement for various workloads and hence reduces time to perform backup in bandwidth constraint environment.