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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Manjunath Jagannatha, Bangalore, IN;
Kiran M V Kumar, Bangalore, IN;
Ravi Shankar Panem, Bangalore, IN;
EMC IP Holdings Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
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.