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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are directed to a method of backing up virtual machines coupled to a backup server in a large-scale data storage system, by installing a single instance of a backup management program on the backup server; pushing, by the backup management program, a backup agent to each virtual machine; detecting, through the backup agent, all applications running on a respective virtual machine; taking a snapshot of each application after freezing the applications and prior to thawing the applications, by the backup agent; and saving the snapshot of the each applications on a storage medium. The pushing step comprises creating a shared folder and exposing the shared folder to all the virtual machines for remote invocation by the backup program.