Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Dell Products Inc.

Aaditya Rakesh Bansal

Sunil Kumar Yadav

Shelesh Chopra

Manish Sharma

Soumen Acharya

Sudha Hebsur

Suman Chandra Tokuri

Amit Jain

Jayashree B Radha

Hareej G Hebbur

Upanshu Singhal

Tushar Dethe

Pradeep Anappa

Sneha Yadav

Amarendra Behera

Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor

Pravin Kumar Ashokkumar

Pravin Ashok Kumar

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for backing up user defined logical assets. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a user may define a logical asset type prior to a backup being performed. The user may define the logical asset type based on any rules, filters, or attributes of files and/or folders stored in a file system. Once the user has defined the asset type, the system may utilize file-system meta-data to quickly ascertain which files and folders meet the definition of the logical asset type, allowing for the backup of the user defined asset to be performed with minimal additional workload by the production hosts, clients, backup agents, and other associated components of the system.

Attribute based asset discovery for intelligent protection

A method for performing a backup includes: obtaining a file system backup metadata associated with a target file system of a target production host; processing the file system backup metadata to determine protected data and unprotected data in the target file system; after processing the file system backup metadata, using the file system backup metadata to generate a backup history dataset for the target file system; generating a protection status for each data in the target file system based on the backup history dataset and the determined protected data and unprotected data of the target file system; generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for the target file system showing the data of the target file system along with the protection status of each of the data of the target file system; and displaying, on a display of a computing device and to a user, the GUI.

Systems and method for leveraging backup metadata to provide granular options for data protection

A method for performing a backup includes: obtaining a file system backup metadata associated with a target file system of a target production host; processing the file system backup metadata to determine protected data and unprotected data in the target file system and protection failure details associated with the unprotected data; generating, using the protected data, the unprotected data, and the protection failure details associated with the unprotected data, a graphical user interface (GUI) specifying a protection status of the target file system; and displaying, on a display of a computing device and to a user, the GUI.

Systems and methods for enhanced end user experience for protection status of backed up data

One example method includes, in a network attached storage platform, determining a size of a slice of data that is included in a share of the network attached storage platform, when the size of the slice exceeds a threshold, re-slicing the slice to generate multiple new slices, and each of the new slices has a size that is smaller than the threshold, and when all slices in the share have been evaluated in terms of their respective sizes, generating a slice list that includes the new slices.

Balancing of slices with consolidation and re-slicing

A method that is performed for backing up data. The method includes obtaining an asset backup request; and in response to the asset backup request: obtaining an asset and an asset entry associated with the asset backup request; dividing the asset into pseudo-assets using the asset entry; storing the pseudo-assets across backup storages to generate pseudo-asset backups; initiating the merging of the pseudo-asset backups to generate an asset backup; and updating asset backup metadata based on the asset backup.

Method and system for generating backups using pseudo-asset backups

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for efficiently backing up a production host. In one or more embodiments, assets are assigned to one or more slices. Depending on the type of assets assigned to a slice such as directory information versus data, the slices are assigned a flag. This flag may then be used to determine which streams a slice should be assigned to and based on the specific flags of the slices assigned to each stream, the order by which the streams are transferred to backup containers located in a backup storage may be determined. This may result in better or more efficient utilization of available connections between the containers and the production host, resulting in better utilization of system and network resources as well as a better backup and recovery performance.

Prioritize slices for faster file backup and restore

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for efficiently restoring a production host. Selected assets are restored from a plurality of slices stored on a plurality of containers in a backup storage system. In order to restore the selected assets, a hierarchical mapping of the slices is produced by analyzing a backup's metadata, from which the assets are to be restored. The hierarchical mapping is then searched for highest level slice containing the assets and then searching the lower-level slices associated with the highest-level slice to efficiently discover the slices containing the selected assets. This invention reduces and/or eliminates the need to crawl the entire slice list once the highest level is discovered; only its children need to be searched for the asset. Once the slices associated with an asset are found, they can be quickly restored from the corresponding containers which hold the assets.

Slice searching for efficient granular level recovery in data protection

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems that improve the operation of one or more computing devices by allowing backups and restorations to be performed on files and folders that are normally unavailable for normal restoration. By utilizing the backup's meta-data, a backup agent can receive an indication that a file or folder is not available and take appropriate actions so that the files and folders that are normally not available can be properly restored. Making it possible to efficiently perform a backup of a file-system that can be restored even when files and/or folders are normally unavailable to be restored normally.

Smart restoration for unavailable data using meta-data

A method for performing data backup includes: receiving a backup request specifying a file where the file is stored in a shared storage. Additionally, in response to the backup request: retrieving, by a primary data node, properties of the file; determining, by the primary data node, resource availability for plurality of secondary data nodes where the primary data node and the plurality of secondary data nodes is operatively connected to the shared storage and a backup storage; logically dividing, by the primary data node, the file into a plurality of segments using at least the properties of the file; and coordinating, by the primary data node, the backup of the file using the plurality of segments and the resource availability of the plurality of secondary data nodes.

Method and system for generating backup of a large file and optimizing resource utilization

Embodiments of the invention relate to generating backups of applications. The user or administrator that monitors the backup is notified of those files and/or folders that have not been backed up in the most recent backup. Further, embodiments of the invention enable alerts to be initiated when a particular file or folder has not been backed up over multiple backups or over a predetermined period. As a result, the user or administrator can have a better understanding of the protection and lack of protection that the present backups are providing.

Smart cataloging of excluded data

A method for performing a data backup process on a cluster includes: obtaining a backup generation request for virtual machines; in response to obtaining the backup generation request: generating a first set of backup groupings based on the backup generation request where each of the first set of backup groupings includes at least one of the virtual machines; issuing a disable migration command to a plurality of production hosts where each of the plurality of production hosts is associated with at least one of the virtual machines; identifying, after the issuing, a virtual machine of the virtual machines that is migrating; removing, based on the identifying, the virtual machine from the first set of backup groupings to obtain a second set of backup groupings where the virtual machine is placed in an excluded group after the removing; and backing up the second set of backup groupings.

Method and system for backing up virtual machines in a cluster shared volume

A method for performing a backup includes: receiving, by a computing device, a native view request for a graphical user interface (GUI) of a local file system; intercepting, by a backup services agent executing on the computing device, the native view request before the GUI is generated; obtaining, by the backup services agent and in response to intercepting the native view request, a file system backup metadata associated with the local file system from a backup storage device and a local file system metadata associated with the local file system from a local storage of the computing device; generating a combined file system content list using the file system backup metadata and the local file system metadata; generating the GUI using the combined file system content list; and displaying, on a display of the computing device and to a user, the GUI.

Systems and methods for leveraging backup metadata to provide granular options for discovery of deleted items and recovery after data backup

Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing data protection services for data stored in a shared storage. The method may include identifying, by a primary data node, a protection policy event initiating performance of data protection services for data stored in the shared storage used by the primary data node and secondary data nodes; in response to identifying the protection policy event: obtaining primary data node monitoring information associated with the primary data node; obtaining secondary data node monitoring information associated with the secondary data nodes; assigning at least one resource limit to the primary data node and the secondary data nodes based on the primary data node monitoring information and the secondary data node monitoring information; and initiating performance of the data protection services by the primary data node and the secondary data nodes based on the assigned at least one resource limit.

Method and system for limiting access of multiple data nodes to shared storage during the performance of data protection services through load balancing

A method for copying source data from a source server to a destination server, that includes initiating, by a source copy manager, a copy operation of the source data, where during the copy operation, the method further includes obtaining resource statistics, setting a data chunk size based on the resource statistics, copying a data chunk to a read queue, where the data chunk includes a portion of the source data, and where the data chunk has the data chunk size, and sending, from the read queue, the data chunk to a network device, and ending the copy operation.

Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting data chunk sizes copied over a network

A method for generating data backups, that includes receiving, by a local backup manager executing on a local storage server, a command to initiate a backup process for a virtual data pool, and in response to receiving the command, identifying a plurality of locations pointing to a plurality of data, respectively, making a first determination that a first location points to a remote data stored on a remote storage server, in response to the first determination, sending a second command, to the remote storage server, to generate a remote backup data of the remote data, making a second determination that a second location points to a local data stored on the local storage server, and in response to the second determination, generating a local backup data of the local data, where the plurality of data backups includes the remote backup data and the local backup data.

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