Comm Vault Systems, Inc.

Waqas Ashraf

Jun H Ahn

Brahmaiah Vallabhaneni

Anup Kumar

Jing Zhang

Balashankar Sundar

Rahul S Pawar

Sudha Krishnan Iyer

Arun Kumar Krishna Shankar

Nadejda Nekrassova

An information management system according certain aspects for archiving file system content may include a third-party application archiving data agent configured to: access third-party application archiving rules for archiving data to one or more secondary storage devices, wherein the third-party application archiving rules are defined by a third-party application to archive files associated with the third-party application; access third-party metadata associated with a plurality of files in a file system, wherein the plurality of files is associated with the third-party application and the third-party metadata is defined by the third-party application; determine whether to archive one or more files of the plurality of files based at least in part on the third-party application archiving rules and the third-party metadata; and in response to determining that a first file of the plurality of files should be archived, archive the first file to the one or more secondary storage devices.

File system content archiving based on third-party application archiving rules and metadata

Systems and methods for creating local, or on-premises, secondary copies of data managed and/or stored in online repositories are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods perform a single application programming interface (API) call to a web application level of an online repository to transfer a copy of the data stored in the online repository from the online repository to a local site of a local information management system. Via the local site, the systems and methods access the copy of the data at the site of the local information management system, generate a metadata manifest file that associates metadata files and data files within the copy of the data of the site of the local information management system, and transfer the data files and the metadata manifest file to a media agent for storage to a secondary storage device of the local information management system.

Creating local copies of data stored in cloud-based data repositories

The systems and methods described herein dynamically allocate streams when restoring data from databases. In some embodiments, the system and methods restore data from a database by determining a number of streams to allocate to the database for restoring files of data from the database. The determined number of streams may be based on a total amount of data within the database, and/or may be based, at least in part, on the previous number of streams used during backup operations, in order to balance the benefit of allocating streams to a restoration of data with any detriments associated with changing the number of streams from the number used during previous backup operations.

Dynamically allocating streams during restoration of data

Rather than relying on pre-defined scheduling of secondary copy operations such as backup jobs, the illustrative opportunistic approach initiates secondary copy operations based on changing operational conditions in a storage management system. An adaptive backup readiness score is based on a number of backup-readiness operational factors. An illustrative enhanced data agent which is associated with the target database application (or other executable component) may monitor the operational factors and determine the backup readiness score based on weights assigned to the respective operational factors. The enhanced data agent may evaluate recent backup jobs to determine which of the operational factors that contributed to the backup readiness score may have been most relevant. Based on the most-relevant analysis, the enhanced data agent may adapt the weights assigned to the monitored operational factors, so that the backup readiness score may be more suitable and responsive to ongoing operational conditions in the system.

Opportunistic execution of secondary copy operations

Systems and method that restore application data stored by a virtual machine database for an application (e.g., SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, and so on) running on the virtual machine are described. The systems and methods create an integrated snapshot of the application data stored in the virtual machine database, by creating a secondary copy of the application data stored in the virtual machine database, performing, via a virtual server agent (VSA), a software snapshot of the virtual machine, and performing, via the virtual server agent, a hardware snapshot of the software snapshot of the virtual machine.

Granular restoration of virtual machine application data

Creating local copies of data stored in online data repositories

Systems and method that restore application data stored by a virtual machine database for an application (e.g., SQL, Sharepoint, Exchange, and so on) running on the virtual machine are described. The systems and methods create an integrated snapshot of the application data stored in the virtual machine database, by creating a secondary copy of the application data stored in the virtual machine database, performing, via a virtual server agent (VSA), a software snapshot of the virtual machine, and performing, via the virtual server agent, a hardware snapshot of the software snapshot of the virtual machine.

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