Dell Products Inc.

Amol Powar

Salil Dangi

Eugene Kim

One example method includes generating, by a data backup server agent that is hosted by a backup client computing system, backup data files from data stored at the backup client computing system. The backup data files are written to a temporary folder in a staging location of a backup storage server. A determination is made of if an attempt to move the temporary folder has failed. A failure is indicative that the backup storage server is operating in a retention lock mode. Each of the plurality of backup data files are moved individually from the temporary folder to a final folder in a final location of the backup storage server when it is determined that the attempt to move the temporary folder has failed.

Retention lock leveraging in a backup computing system

One example method, which may be performed in a dedupe environment, includes receiving a data call from a caller, in response to the data call, generating data that fulfills a portion of the data call, storing the data in a buffer, checking an offset to determine if the offset maps to the buffer, and when the offset maps to the buffer, altering the data that is located at the offset in the buffer. When the offset does not map to the buffer, the generation of data may cease.

Growing community of inventors

Burlington, Canada

Amol Powar