Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Krishnendu Bagchi

Shelesh Chopra

Elango Chockalingam

Matthew Dickey Buchman

Amarendra Behera

Pallavi Prakash

Vipin Kumar Kaushal

Manjesh Venkatanarayana Chikkanayakanahally

Nitin Anand

Asif Khan

Sunil Kumar Yadav

Nikhil Ambastha

Vedavathi Ht

Tushar Dethe

Himanshu Arora

Sudha Hebsur

Anand Reddy

Gururaj Soma

Gajendran Raghunathan

Jaishree Balasubramanian

Niketan Narayan Kalaskar

Upanshu Singhal

Navneet Upadhyay

Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci

Adrian Dobrean

Aditya Kapoor

Jayashree B Radha

Pawan Singh

Bharat Bhushan

Challa Dharmateja

Manish Sharma

Anupam Chakraborty

Amith Ramachandran

Jerzy Gruszka

Ken Owens

Shubhashish Mallik

Ravi Shankar

Kenneth William Owens

Rintu Kumar Kanp

Michael Jones

Prashant Shukla

Acharya Soumen

Milind Parvatikar

Pradeep Annappa

Matt Buchman

Sudha Vamanraj Hebsur

Creating vendor-neutral data protection operations for vendors' application resources is described. Capabilities specified for data protection operations by a vendor of an application are input from a host of the application. Any capabilities specified for the data protection operations are used to create a vendor-neutral version of a data protection operation for a resource of the application. The vendor-neutral version of the data protection operation for the application resource is output to the host. A result of performing the vendor-neutral version of the data protection operation on the application resource is input from the host.

Creating vendor-neutral data protection operations for vendors' application resources

Enabling scripting language commands to backup/restore databases is described. A system outputs, to a user interface, a backup/restore option for a database. The system generates scripting language commands based on a selection of the backup/restore option received from the user interface. The system outputs, to the user interface, the scripting language commands based on the selection of the backup/restore option. The system enables a scripting language system to execute the scripting language commands based on the selection of the backup/restore option.

Enabling scripting language commands to backup/restore databases

A method and system for capturing asset protection metadata pertinent to analytics. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail aggregating and maintaining asset protection metadata&#x2014;i.e., metadata descriptive of performed asset backup and recovery operations&#x2014;in a central location. The asset protection metadata may include information relevant to backup and recovery analytics and reporting, while the maintaining said metadata in the central location facilitates access of the metadata by third-party analytics services.

Method and system for capturing asset protection metadata pertinent to analytics

A system for providing data protection services for data generated by host components hosted by hosts includes persistent storage for storing data and a local data protection manager. The local data protection manager identifies a data protection trigger event associated with a host component hosted by the host, identifies an add-on library associated with the host component, identifies a data protection agent associated with the host component, and initiates performance of data protection services by the data protection agent using the add-on library.

Method and system for performing data protection management using an add-on application programming interface

A method and system for optimizing backup and backup discovery operations using change based metadata tracking (CBMT). Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail eliminating the storage and subsequent transmission of redundant asset metadata information to a central coordination point during backup discovery operations, which may strain central coordination point resources, as well as client device resources. Accordingly, rather than re-sharing the same asset metadata information every time a backup discovery initiates, the client device tracks, maintains, and transmits only changes in asset metadata, thereby conserving resource utilization.

Method and system for optimizing backup and backup discovery operations using change based metadata tracking (CBMT)

A production host includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores virtual machine data and a service group list associated with an application service group. The backup manager obtains a backup generation request for the application service group that includes virtual machines, and each of the virtual machines uses a copy of the virtual machine data; in response to obtaining the backup generation request: identifies a first virtual machine the virtual machines that is prioritized for generating a backup for the application service group based on the service group list; attempts to generate the backup using the first virtual machine and the copy of the virtual machine data; and stores the backup in backup storage.

System and method for selection of node for backup in distributed system

Techniques to back up data are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to perform a differential backup of a database is received. It is verified that a full backup to be referenced by the differential backup is available on backup media. It is determined that no intervening backup was performed subsequent to the full backup that would create a risk of data loss in the event a recovery operation based on the differential backup were performed, including by ignoring any intervening backup that may have been performed but is of a type that would not give rise to such a risk of data loss. The differential backup is performed, without promoting to full backup, based on least in part on said determination.

Promotional logic during database differential backup

An agent for managing backup generation for virtual machines includes a persistent storage stores backup policies and a backup manager that obtains request for generating a backup for a first virtual machine of the virtual machines and, in response to obtaining the request, generates a backup load prediction for generating the backup; performs a resource availability analysis of a host computing device hosting the first virtual machine to determine computing resources availability for generating the backup; makes a first determination, using the backup load prediction and the computing resource availability, that the host computing device has insufficient resources for generating the backup; and, in response to the first determination, performs a backup type analysis on existing backups associated with the first virtual machine to obtain at least one updated backup policy; and generates a reduced-resource cost backup for the virtual machine using at least one of the updated backup policies.

System and method for dynamic configuration of backup agents

A method and system for intelligently migrating to a centralized protection framework. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail redirecting the target of asset backup operations for any given asset from one or more legacy backup devices to a centrally-managed backup device.

Method and system for intelligently migrating to a centralized protection framework

A backup storage includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backups of entities and a global application data map. The backup manager obtains a restoration request for restoration of an application hosted by an entity of the entities; makes a determination to accelerate the restoration based, at least in part, on the application; in response to the determination: identifies a virtual disk level backup of the entity that is associated with the application using the global application data map; obtains the virtual disk level backup from the backups of the entities; and restores the application using the virtual disk level backup.

System and method for accelerated data access

A method for providing an application service to clients includes identifying a failure of the application service that causes the application service to be suspended; in response to identifying the failure: instantiating an instance of an application for providing the application service in a production host; identifying at least one virtual disk level backup that is: associated with the application and is a portion of deduplicated backups; extracting the at least one virtual disk level backup from deduplicated backups to obtain a copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup; identifying application data associated with the application within the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup; transitioning an application service session for a client of the clients to the instance of the application; and resuming the application service for the client using the instance of the application and the application data.

System and method for accelerating application service restoration

An agent for managing virtual machines includes a persistent storage and an application agent manager. The persistent storage stores backup policies. The application agent manager identifies a new virtual machine instance and, in response to identifying the new virtual machine instance, performs proxy agent based analysis of the new virtual machine instance to generate a data loss threat profile of the new virtual machine instance; remediates the new virtual machine instance by instantiating application agents for the new virtual machine instance based on the data loss threat profile and a portion of the backup policies associated with the new virtual machine instance; updates at least one of the backup policies based on the instantiated application agents; and performs an application backup session for the new virtual machine instance using the instantiated application agents.

System and method for orchestrated backup in a virtualized environment

A backup storage includes persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backups of entities and an entity list that lists the entities. The backup manager obtains a restoration availability request from a user; filters the entity list based on an identity of the user to obtain an available entity list; identifies, based on user input obtain based on the available entity list, an entity of the entities; and restores the entity using the backups.

System and method for limiting restoration access

An intelligent log gap detection to ensure necessary backup promotion. Specifically, a method and system are disclosed, which entail determining whether to pursue a differential database backup or promote the differential database backup to a full database backup, in order to preclude data loss across high availability databases. The deduction pivots on a matching or mismatching between log sequence numbers (LSNs).

Intelligent log gap detection to ensure necessary backup promotion

An improved backup utility allows the ability to maintain full backup and incremental backup log chains, even when databases which are part of a clustered database group are backed up from different database nodes and instances. In these embodiments, this is implemented by storing the backup of the databases from both primary and secondary (failover) nodes under a single backup client which is the cluster identifier. The backup is indexed against a constant database instance based on a user configured save set. In other words, regardless of which node is primary at the time of the backup, the backup is made against a constant backup instance.

Automatic detection and backup of primary database instance in database cluster

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Krishnendu Bagchi