  In everyday life. Technological advancement can be found in many facets of
life, including personal computers, mobile devices, wearables, cloud services,
video gaming, web-powered messaging, social media, Internet-connected devices,
etc. This technological influence has resulted in these technologies being
employed by criminals to conduct a range of crimes -- both online and offline.
Both the number of cases requiring digital forensic analysis and the sheer
volume of information to be processed in each case has increased rapidly in
recent years. As a result, the requirement for digital forensic investigation
has ballooned, and law enforcement agencies throughout the world are scrambling
to address this demand. While more and more members of law enforcement are
being trained to perform the required investigations, the supply is not keeping
up with the demand. Current digital forensic techniques are arduously
time-consuming and require a significant amount of man power to execute. This
paper discusses a novel solution to combat the digital forensic backlog. This
solution leverages a deduplication-based paradigm to eliminate the
reacquisition, redundant storage, and reanalysis of previously processed data.
