Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vanita Prabhu

Abid Ali

Pankaj Khanzode

Amit Singla

Ravisankar V Pudipeddi

Karandeep Singh Anand

Dilip Madhusudan Ranade

Vijay Sen

Manoj K Valiyaparambil

Charumathy Srinivasan

Sriram Balasubramaniam

Sachin Durge

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a storage architecture. In aspects, an address provided by a data source is translated into a logical storage address of virtual storage. This logical storage address is translated into an identifier that may be used to store data on or retrieve data from a storage system. The address space of the virtual storage is divided into chunks that may be streamed to the storage system.

Storage architecture for backup application

Methods and systems are disclosed for backup using a metadata virtual hard drive (VHD) and a differential VHD. A particular system includes a memory device that stores files and a backup agent configured to detect changes to the files. The system includes a translation module configured to translate the detected changes into VHD formatted changes and a VHD module configured to write the VHD formatted changes to a metadata VHD stored at the memory device. The VHD module is also configured to generate a differential VHD based on the metadata VHD. A network interface at the system is configured to transmit the metadata VHD and the differential VHD to a remote storage device.

Backup using metadata virtual hard drive and differential virtual hard drive

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