Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Manuel Rodriques

John C Rokicki

Shelesh Chopra

Shubhashish Mallik

Eric Matthies

Christopher Francis Wroten

Satyendra Nath Sharma

Sadagopan Balaraman

Alex Zorrilla

Synchronizing storage devices outside of disabled write windows is described. A system receives, via a backup/restore application interface, a list of identifiers corresponding to source storage devices to be backed up. The system enables a target storage device to synchronize with a source storage device. The system sends, via the backup/restore application interface, a request to disable any write commands to the source storage devices corresponding to the list of identifiers. The system creates a snapshot of the source storage device. The system sends, via the backup/restore application interface, a request to enable any write commands to the source storage devices corresponding to the list of identifiers.

Synchronizing storage devices outside of disabled write windows

A backup system comprises a tape backup storage storing a set of tape backup data, a snapshot backup storage storing a nearest snapshot, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine the nearest snapshot, wherein a snapshot time of the nearest snapshot is nearest in time to a backup time, and determine the set of tape backup data, wherein the set of tape backup data and the nearest snapshot enable recovery of a backup data.

Data recovery from multiple data backup technologies

In one example, a method for protecting data includes receiving input specifying a data backup process, consulting a resource map to identify backup resources that are available, and then checking a rules engine to identify a backup rule that matches the specified data backup process and that can be executed to perform a backup using the available backup resource. When a backup rule is identified that matches the specified data backup process and that can be executed to perform a backup using the available backup resources, the specified backup process is automatically performed using the identified backup rule.

Configuration based intelligent protection modeling

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