Dell Products Inc.

Aaditya Rakesh

Upanshu Singhal

Nancy Jain

Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor

Nitin Kumar

Hema Basavaraju

Anju Singisetty

Sreeman Sunku

A method for sizing backup infrastructure. The method includes: receiving a sizing request including an asset protection policy covering an asset of the backup infrastructure, the asset protection policy at least specifying the asset; based on receiving the sizing request: creating an asset snapshot of the asset; mounting the asset snapshot to obtain a mounted asset snapshot through which asset snapshot data of the asset snapshot is accessible; partitioning the asset snapshot data into a plurality of asset snapshot data slices; computing, at least based on a cardinality of the plurality of asset snapshot data slices, a number of proxy nodes of the backup infrastructure required to collectively perform a prospective backup operation entailing the asset snapshot data; and providing, in reply to the sizing request, a sizing response at least specifying the number of proxy nodes required to collectively perform the prospective backup operation.

Optimal environment sizing for performing asset backup operations

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system for intra-backup anomalous object management and post-backup exclusion rule creation. Enterprise information technology environments often include any number of assets maintaining vast quantities of data and state. Any asset, in turn, may be riddled with various anomalous objects that tend to cause backup failure. Embodiments described herein address backup failure due to the presence of anomalous objects by, while any number of assets undergo backup, objects across said asset(s) may be assessed against object exclusion lists, populated during a pre-backup stage, to identify any anomalous objects of said objects. Once identified, the anomalous object(s) (or metadata descriptive thereof) may be recorded as backup metadata, which may be used in the post-backup creation of one or many exclusion rule(s). The exclusion rule(s) impact, and thus adjust, the backup policy/policies associated with the asset(s) on which the anomalous object(s) had been identified.

Intra-backup anomalous object management and post-backup exclusion rule creation

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system for pre-backup anomalous object detection and exclusion rule creation. Enterprise information technology environments often include any number of assets maintaining vast quantities of data and state. Any asset, in turn, may be riddled with various anomalous objects that tend to cause backup failure. Embodiments described herein address backup failure due to the presence of anomalous objects by, during a pre-backup stage, examining any number of assets to identify any anomalous objects there-within. Once identified, the anomalous object(s) (or metadata descriptive thereof) may be recorded within a backup skip list and, subsequently, excluded from the current and/or any future backup(s). Exclusion of the anomalous object(s), from said backup(s), may be enforced through the automatic creation of one or many exclusion rule(s) that impact, and thus adjust, the backup policy/policies associated with the asset(s).

Pre-backup anomalous object detection and exclusion rule creation

Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing data protection services. The method includes identifying a restoration event associated with an network attached storage (NAS) asset stored in a backup storage; obtaining backup information associated with the NAS asset; making a determination that the restoration is associated with cross platform restoration; and in response to the determination; identifying an available cross platform host of a multi-platform host environment (MPHE) using host information; and initiating restoration of the NAS asset using the cross platform host.

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Bathinda, India

Aaditya Rakesh