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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Wei Chu, Oakville, CA;
Xinyan Zhang, Oakville, CA;
Kenneth Owens, Burlington, CA;
Adrian Dobrean, Oakville, CA;
Daniel Wolski, Mississauga, CA;
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for discovering backups of a database running on a database host, for use by a centralized backup system to validate backup compliance. A report agent executing on the database host can implement a discovery process configured to gather metadata for the backups of the database from a number of dynamic performance views of the database. The metadata is recorded in a control file of the database, and can include one or more commands used by the backup tool to create the backups. The report agent can categorize the metadata into one or more groups based on the backup commands, map backup files associated with each backup to that backup, create a backup report to describe the mapping information and additional information for each backup, and send the backup report to the centralized backup system.