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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2020
Veritas Technologies Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for replicating information with information retention systems may include (1) queueing information communicated between a virtual machine and a source storage device, (2) initiating creating a clone of the virtual machine, (3) sending update information sets, (4) inserting a flush marker into a network queue, (5) stopping the queueing of the information communicated between the virtual machine and the source storage device, (6) sending, after sending the update information sets, the flush marker via a source replication gateway to the target server computing device, (7) pausing replication of the source storage device, (8) resuming replication of the source storage device responsive to completing creating the clone of the virtual machine, and (9) sending, to the target server computing device, additional information communicated between the virtual machine and the source storage device after stopping the queueing. Various other methods, systems, and computer readable media are also disclosed.