Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Vipin Kumar Kaushal

Shelesh Chopra

Krishnendu Bagchi

Pallavi Prakash

Nitin Anand

Amarendra Behera

Sunil Kumar Yadav

Tushar Dethe

Matthew Dickey Buchman

Himanshu Arora

Jigar Premajibhai Bhanushali

Deependra Pratap Singh

Sudha Hebsur

Sapna Chauhan

Anand Reddy

Gajendran Raghunathan

Anjana Rao

Jaishree Balasubramanian

Niketan Narayan Kalaskar

Asif Khan

Gururaj Soma

Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor

Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci

Adrian Dobrean

Kenneth William Owens

Aneesh Kumar Gurindapalli

Gowtham Krishna Iyengar Srinivasa Rangan

Yagnavalkya Chennojwala

A system for identifying and deleting records of hosts includes a local data manager. The local data manager identifies a discovery event associated with the host and a record type of record types, obtains, in response to identifying, all previously discovered records on the host associated with the record type from a host record repository, obtains discovered records associated with the record type and associated with the host, after obtaining all discovered records and previously discovered records, selects a previously discovered record of the previously discovered records, makes a determination that the previously discovered record does not match any discovered records of the discovered records and is not tagged with a soft delete tag or a hard delete tag, and in response to the determination, tags the previously discovered record with a soft delete tag, and notifies a data manager of modifications to the previously discovered records.

Method and system for identifying and deleting records on hosts

A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application, includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for user data based on a protection policy, in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, and generate a user data backup using the user data and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises calendar events of the calendar and portions of the user metadata associated with the calendar events.

Method and system for performing data protection services for user data associated with calendar events

A system for providing data protection services for user data associated with calendar groups generated by an application includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for the user data associated with a calendar group based on a protection policy, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application in response to identifying the backup generation event, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, generate calendar group information associated with the calendar using the user data and the user metadata, generate a user data backup using the user data, the calendar group information, and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises backup data and backup metadata.

Method and system for performing data protection services for user data associated with calendar groups

A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application includes persistent storage that includes an archive storage and a backup storage. The system also includes a manager. The manager is programmed to generate data chunks using user data, generate backup object metadata associated with the data chunks; obtain previously generated backup object metadata associated with the user data using an archive value, make a first determination that at least one data chunk of the data chunks is to be archived using the backup object metadata and the previously generated backup object metadata, and, in response to the first determination: store the at least one data chunk in the archive storage as a portion of a user data backup, and store remaining data chunks of the data chunks in the backup storage as the remaining portion of the user data backup.

Method and system for archiving user data during backup generation

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

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

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

A method and system for efficiently handling backup discovery operations. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail enhancing breadcrumbs&#x2014;e.g., persistent files that store status and other metadata information respective to performed asset backup operations&#x2014;to further include unique transaction identifiers. These transaction identifiers may serve as markers for distinguishing which subset of breadcrumbs (rather than all breadcrumbs) to forward to a central management system during asset backup discovery operations. The disclosed method and system also implement batch processing architecture to regulate resource consumption on both the client and manager sides.

Method and system for efficiently handling backup discovery operations

A method for managing backups that includes generating a full backup of a database and, after generating the full backup, generating N incremental backups of the database and generating a first differential backup of the database after the N incremental backups have been generated, wherein the first differential backup is generated relative to the full backup.

Method and system for automation of differential backups

A backup storage includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores virtual machine level backups and application level backups. The backup manager obtains a request for a point in time restoration of an application; identifies, based on the application, a virtual machine level backup of the virtual machine level backups that is associated with: a virtual machine that hosted an instance of the application and a first point in time prior to a restoration point in time specified by the request for the point in time restoration; identifies, based on the application, an application level backup of the application level backups that is associated with the restoration point in time; generates a point in time backup using: the identified virtual machine level backup, and the identified application level backup; and services the request using the point in time backup.

System and method for accelerated point in time restoration

A method and system for SharePoint single web application recovery. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein overcome the existing problem of data loss that incurs when a SharePoint farm (SPF) (i.e., or more specifically, the configuration database within the SPF) is restored due to the failure of just a single web application that executes therein. The data loss transpires because restoring the SPF leads to the overwriting of data associated with all web applications, and not just the failed web application, that executes on the SPF. The method and system disclosed herein addresses this dilemma through the assembly of web application topology metadata pertinent to recovering any web application periodically prior to a web application failover event, determining that a web application has entered a failed state and, subsequently, triggering and executing the restoration of just the failed web application based on the determining.

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Vipin Kumar Kaushal