Symantec Corporation

Veritas Technologies LLC

Steven Mohl

Lokesha B Krishnamurthy

A computer-implemented method for protecting virtual machine data may include (1) receiving a request to perform a granular backup operation on data stored by a guest system within a virtual machine, (2) identifying a storage container that comprises an agent that performs backup operations, (3) attaching the storage container to the virtual machine in response to the request, and (4) performing the granular backup operation by sending an instruction to the guest system within the virtual machine to execute the agent. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for protecting virtual machine data

A computer-implemented method for safely migrating to virtualized platforms may include (1) identifying a virtual machine that is a target of a physical-to-virtual conversion from a physical server, (2) determining that the physical-to-virtual conversion includes at least one future step before the physical-to-virtual conversion is complete, (3) based on determining that the physical-to-virtual conversion includes the future step, creating a snapshot of the virtual machine before the future step, and (4) reverting the virtual machine to the snapshot before the future step. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for protecting virtual machines during physical-to-virtual conversions

A method for converting a physical file system to a virtual file system of a virtual machine. The method includes initiating a new incremental physical to virtual conversion process, and analyzing a history of a plurality of prior incremental conversions to determine whether there exists at least one prior incremental conversion that failed. Upon determination that a prior failed incremental conversion occurred, the method further includes determining a correct chronological order of the plurality of prior incremental conversions, and determining an original failure point and any subsequent failure points. The prior incremental conversions are re-applied from each of said original failure point and said subsequent failure points in the correct chronological order with the most recent incremental conversion re-applied last.

Conversion of physical computers to virtualized environments method and system

Techniques for file system resource restoration are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for file system resource restoration comprising modeling source configuration information of one or more file system resources associated with a first storage management system, modeling target configuration information of one or more file system resources associated with a second storage management system, mapping one or more portions of the source configuration information to the target configuration information, generating computer executable restoration instructions based at least in part on the mapping; and executing the computer executable restoration instructions to restore one or more file system resources of the source configuration information to a target computing platform identified by the target configuration information.

Techniques for file system resource restoration

Techniques for restoring file system resources are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for restoring file system resources comprising determining source configuration information of one or more file system resources, modeling a source configuration based at least in part on the source configuration information, determining target configuration information, modeling a target configuration based at least in part on the target configuration information, generating restoration instructions to map the source configuration to the target configuration, and executing the restoration instructions to restore the one or more file system resources of the source configuration to the target configuration.

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Sanford, FL, United States of America

Steven Mohl