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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2017
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Rahul S. Pawar, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Henry Wallace Dornemann, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Chitra Ramaswamy, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Ashwin Gautamchand Sancheti, Ocean, NJ (US);
COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC., Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Abstract
According to certain aspects, a method can include creating a backup copy of data associated with a virtual machine (VM) on one or more secondary storage devices, wherein the backup copy includes corresponding secondary copies of a plurality of files associated with the VM; analyzing metadata associated with the secondary copies to determine which of the plurality files are eligible to be removed from the primary storage device; in response determining that one or more files are eligible to be removed from the primary storage device, for respective file of the one or more files: determining whether the respective file has been changed since a first time at which the backup copy of the data associated with the VM was created; in response to determining that the respective file has not changed since the first time, removing the respective file; and adding a file placeholder for the removed file.