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Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2015
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Assaf Natanzon, Tel Aviv, IL;

Leehod Baruch, Rishon Leziyon, IL;

Jehuda Shemer, Kfar Saba, IL;

Lev Ayzenberg, Petah Tikva, IL;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6218 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a splitter, an I/O to be written from a virtual machine to a production virtual machine disk; sending an acknowledgement to the splitter that the I/O is received; writing data from the I/O to a first differential virtual machine disk; generating a snapshot; allocating a second differential virtual machine disk; redirecting new I/Os to the virtual machine, arriving from the splitter, to the second differential virtual machine disk and applying changes from first differential disk to a copy of data on a backup storage.


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