Exagrid Systems, Inc.

William Andrews

David G Therrien

Thomas J Gillispie

Stephen M Stickles

Adrian T VanderSpek

Mark Bennett Hecker

Jamey C Poirier

Yee-ching Chao

Peter Watkins

Nathaniel W Turner

Andrew H French

Alex Pientka

Michael Carleton

Luke Makosky

Sandra C Scott

Stephen Smith

Adrian T Vanderspek

Yee-Ching Chao

A method, a system, and a computer program product for protection and recovery of backup storage systems from ransomware attacks. A request to modify data stored in a storage system is received. The storage system includes at least one component configured to store the deduplicated data. An acknowledgement of the received request is generated. The acknowledgement indicates that the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request was modified. Modification of the data stored in the at least one component and identified in the received request for a predetermined period of time is prevented.

Protection and recovery of backup storage systems from ransomware attacks

A method, a system, and a computer program product for performing a backup of data are disclosed. A grid server in a plurality of grid servers is selected for deduplicating a segment of data in a plurality of segments of data contained within a data stream. The segment of data is forwarded to the selected grid server for deduplication. A zone contained within the forwarded segment of data is deduplicated using the selected server. The deduplication is performed based on a listing of a plurality of zone stamps. Each zone stamp in the plurality of zone stamps represents a zone in a plurality of zones deduplicated by at least one server in the plurality of grid servers.

Parallelizing and deduplicating backup data

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