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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:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Manjunath Jagannatha, Bangalore, IN;

Kiran M V Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Ravi Shankar Panem, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/30 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 16/162 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment is related to a method for excluding files from a backup image file during a backup operation, comprising: determining files to be excluded from the backup image; taking a first snapshot of a source volume; exposing an iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) disk with the first snapshot being a target; deleting files to be excluded from the exposed iSCSI disk; taking a second snapshot of the exposed iSCSI disk; and streaming the second snapshot of the exposed iSCSI disk to create a save set in a virtual disk file on a backup medium.


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