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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Manuel Rodriques, Sutton, MA (US);
John Rokicki, Rutland, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 11/1456 (2013.01); G06F 11/1458 (2013.01); G06F 11/1461 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
A backup system comprises a tape backup storage storing a set of tape backup data, a snapshot backup storage storing a nearest snapshot, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine the nearest snapshot, wherein a snapshot time of the nearest snapshot is nearest in time to a backup time, and determine the set of tape backup data, wherein the set of tape backup data and the nearest snapshot enable recovery of a backup data.