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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Adam Brenner, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Jennifer Starling, Lake Forest, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for implementing agentless virtual disk metadata indexing. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entails the parsing of data within a virtual machine and/or virtual disk snapshot to extract filesystem metadata information during data backup operations. Extraction of the filesystem metadata information is performed based on an understanding of a filesystem layout for a format in which the snapshot is defined, rather than based on the mounting and traversing of the snapshot. Furthermore, the extracted filesystem metadata information is encoded in a schema that may facilitate indexing of the information for use in a metadata searching and/or retrieval service.