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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2017
Applicant:

Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ajith Balachandran, Bangalore, IN;

James Namboorikandathil Joseph, Bangalore, IN;

Michael R Eisler, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Rahul Pradeep, Bangalore, IN;

Somesh Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Vijay Srinath, Bangalore, IN;

Yuedong Mu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 11/00 (2013.01); G06F 11/1446 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques and components for backing up data are disclosed. A first subset of data units is selected from a plurality of data units of a storage system to create a first partial baseline for backup of the first storage system. The number of data units in the first subset of data units is determined based on a window size parameter n. Data within the storage system that has changed since a previous backup operation are identified. A first backup including the first partial baseline and the first changed data is written to a second storage system. For a data loss event, the techniques include selecting, based on a time of the determined data loss event in combination with n, the first backup and n−1 additional backups, wherein each of the n−1 additional backups include a partial baseline and changed data. The first backup and the n−1 additional backups are written to a third storage system.


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