Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Jerzy Gruszka

Matthew Dickey Buchman

Min-Chih L Earl

Brian J Bishop

Mohammed A Akanda

Craig Randall

Michael D Hartway

Koteswara R Boda

Scott C Teerink

Prashant Shukla

Amarendra Behera

Krishnendu Bagchi

Michael Jones

Troy Thompson

James A Mooney

Systems and methods for backing up and restoring virtual machines in a cluster environment. An instrumentation interface enables configuration data to be stored with save sets during backup and enables the configuration of the destination to be adjusted based on the stored configuration during a restore.

Virtual backup and restore of virtual machines

Image restore from incremental backup

Systems and methods for backing up and restoring virtual machines in a cluster environment. A cluster agent that is cluster aware operates as an interface with the backup server. The cluster agent can locate the virtual machines being backed up or restored and coordinate with a local agent to perform the backup or restore of the virtual machines.

Highly available cluster agent for backup and restore operations

Systems and methods for granularly recovering a backup are provided. An image of a backup is mounted as a file system such that the files can be granularly restored. Image-level recovery and file-level recovery can be achieved from the same backup. The backup may also be de-duplicated.

De-duplicated file share mounting for granular level data recoveries

A snapshot of a remote virtual machine within a cluster of nodes is taken by using an image writer with a snapshot provider. A set of backup components is recorded by using a cluster interface. The remote virtual machine is reconstructed by using the snapshot and a framework with the set of backup components.

Virtual machine proxy server for hyper-V image backup and recovery

A remote snapshot is taken of a data associated with a node within a cluster of nodes by using a snapshot facility of an operating system. A set of backup data components is recorded. The data is remotely restored by interpreting the remote snapshot with the set of backup data components.

Cluster file server proxy server for backup and recovery

An application on a client is presented with a target destination for a backup of data managed by the application. The target destination includes a virtual drive. Data backed up by the application to the virtual drive is received. The data is directed to a de-duplication library executing on the client, where the de-duplication library is separate from the application.

Accessing de-duplication services from an application using a file system filter driver for backup and restore

The present disclosure relates to managing concurrent recovery operations. Operation state may be stored in a repository managed by a service. The service may query the repository as requests come in, and take appropriate actions based on an identified state.

Concurrent recovery operation management

Techniques for managing virtual machine backup are described herein. According to one embodiment, a virtual machine (VM) management console queries VM backup data stored in backup servers. The VM management console manages VMs running within data processing systems over a network. In response to the request, the VM management console retrieves backup operational data from backup servers, the backup operational data describing the VM backup data backed up from the data processing system. A VM backup report is generated having the backup operational data therein and VM information of VMs that are associated with the VM backup data described by the backup operational data. The VM backup report is presented in the VM management console to allow a user to select one or more of the VMs to be recovered from the backup servers.

System and method for presenting virtual machine (VM) backup information from multiple backup servers

A set of objects associated with an incremental backup is determined where the set of objects includes one or more full backup objects associated with a full backup from which the incremental backup depends. A backup is performed using the set of objects, including by setting one or more timestamps associated with the one or more full backup objects to a time later than the full backup.

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Lacey, WA, United States of America

Jerzy Gruszka