Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brian Thomas Berkowitz

Catharine Van Ingen

Peter A Christofferson

Vinay Badami

Seetharaman Harikrishnan

Yezdi Z Lashkari

Karandeep Singh Anand

Nikhil Vijay Chandhok

Brian Michael Wahlert

Robert M Fries

Mark Joseph Zbikowski

Dharshan Rangegowda

Mike Jazayeri

David Golds

Michael C Johnson

Sunil Pai

Purushottam M Kulkarni

Steven E Olsson

Norbert Paul Kusters

Vijay Sen

Manikandan Thangarathnam

Robert I Ferguson

Charles E Park

Sushil Baid

Sundararajan Srinivasan

Max L Benson

Giedrius Zizys

Kyle G Peltonen

Abid Ali

William Trotter Shelton

Catherine Van Ingen

Suresh P Duddi

Ran Kalach

Paul Adrian Oltean

Srikanth Shoroff

Reuven Lax

Amit Singla

Gunnar Mein

David E Gonzalez

Bartosz Boleslaw Milewski

Sreenivas Narayana Simhadri

Venkatasubrahmanyam Raman

Arasu Shankher Jeyaprakash

William T Shelton, Jr

A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.

Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system

A computer-implemented system configured to describe the relationship between a first Namespace and a second Namespace is provided. The system includes a containment relationship identifying a direct relationship between a first object of the first Namespace and a second object of the first Namespace. Moreover, the system includes a junction relationship linking the second object of the first Namespace to a first object of the second Namespace. In one embodiment, the system is configured to facilitate the recovery of information based on the descriptions of the Namespaces that is maintained.

Configuring a data protection system

A method and system for backing up and restoring data. First, a full backup is performed to create a full dataset. Thereafter, incremental or differential datasets may be created by incremental or differential backups, respectively. When a new full dataset is needed, instead of performing a full backup, a previous full dataset may be combined with subsequent incremental or differential datasets to create the new full dataset. The new full dataset may be created on a computer other than the computer which hosts the data of the previous full dataset. The new full dataset may be used for offsite storage or to quickly restore data in the event of a failure or corruption of a computer's file system.

Method and system for synthetic backup and restore

A method for creating an archive protection plan for archiving a backup of data is provided. An indication of an archive data protection kind and an archive data protection duration are received. In response to receiving the archive data protection kind and the archive data protection duration, an archive scheme is determined and an archive protection plan representative of the archive scheme is generated.

Method, system, and apparatus for creating an archive routine for protecting data in a data protection system

A method for creating a group plan for protecting an object located at a production location is provided. A selection of an object for which a group plan is to be created is received along with protection intents for the selected object. The protection intents are translated into a group plan for protecting the selected object.

Method, system, and apparatus for translating logical information representative of physical data in a data protection system

A system and method of transporting volumes of information from one host computer system to another using point-in-time copies of LUNs but wherein the hardware provider does not necessarily understand the volume configuration of the data. The system and method involves an intermediate layer, i.e., a point-in-time copy interface layer that communicates with both a requesting host computer system and a hardware provider to enable the transfer of volumes of information without requiring that the hardware provider understand the volume information.

Method and system for transporting data content on a storage area network

A method for detecting changes to a production location is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a portion of the production location that is to be protected and identifying a larger portion of the production location that contains the selected portion of the production location. Upon identifying the larger portion, a routine is created for evaluating the identified larger portion of the production location for changes. That routine is performed in order to detect changes to the production location.

Method, system, and apparatus for creating saved searches and auto discovery groups for a data protection system

A method for verifying data copies generated by a data protection system is provided. In accordance with the method, intents for selecting a data copy to be verified are determined. The intents may specify a time period after which data is to be verified and an interval for which the verification is to be repeated. Additionally, utilizing the intents, a data copy matching those intents is identified and verified. A data copy may be verified by comparing a checksum of the data copy with a known checksum value. If the data copy fails to be verified, a copy of the data copy is generated.

Method and system for verifying data in a data protection system

A method for protecting protectable objects located at a production location is provided. A Namespace, representative of a plurality of protectable objects, is provided to a user for selection. A selection of at least a portion of the Namespace is received and that selected portion is mapped to at least one protectable object. A plan for protecting the mapped protectable object is created, and using that plan the protectable object is protected.

Method, system, and apparatus for configuring a data protection system

Each node in a network accessing a common database caches a copy of the database tables it uses and updates those tables based on changes made by other nodes in a coherent cache, i.e., those node that also have a copy of the tables in their cache. When a new node joins the coherent cache, dynamic synchronization of the table is performed by having one of the existing nodes act as a source to populate the table(s) required on the new (destination) node from its own copy. The dynamic synchronization controls the population operation and allows for the populating of tables on the destination node from partially populated tables on the source node. The dynamic synchronization of the tables permits database updates to continue to be made to the tables by the existing nodes in the coherent cache and provides a mechanism to propagate the committed updates to the tables on the destination node. Once the tables on the destination node are fully populated, all pending updates are suspended while a snapshot of the state of the table on the source node is taken. Once the destination node has processed the snapshot, active transactions on the source node are initiated on the destination node, and all transactions are allowed to modify the table on the destination node.

Dynamic synchronization of tables

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