31. The computer-implemented method of claim 26 wherein step b) further comprises identifying by the processor any deflate exclude range boundaries within the input buffer, wherein RPR compression is performed only on portions of the input buffer that are not within the deflate exclude range boundaries.
26. A computer-implemented method of compressing data, comprising carrying out steps of the computer-implemented method by a computer system with at least a processor and a memory, the computer-implemented steps of the method including: a) receiving a current instance of data in memory comprising an input buffer; b) performing by the processor a repeat pattern replacement (RPR) compression on at least a portion of the current instance of data to store a corresponding RPR processed range at a next available position in a reference log, wherein the RPR compression processing substitutes an RPR item for a consecutive range of symbols, wherein the value of the RPR item is independent of the location of the consecutive range of symbols; and c) performing by the processor a dedupe compression on each RPR processed portion to store a corresponding dedupe processed range at a next available position in a temporary buffer, wherein a dedupe item is substituted for a selected range of consecutive symbols of the RPR processed range if the selected range is verified as recurring, wherein the dedupe item identifies an offset to the location of the prior occurrence of the selected range in a same RPR processed range or a prior RPR processed range from one of the current instance and a prior instance of data in the input buffer; d) making the reference log available for communication to a target computer.