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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2020
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1461 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for performing backup operations includes obtaining, by a stream allocator operating in a backup storage system, a plurality of media management entries, wherein a media management entry of the plurality of media management entries specifies a data object, a relative priority, and a maximum number of streams, selecting the media management entry based on the relative priority, allocating a number of backup streams to the data object based on the maximum number of streams, and initiating a transfer of a backup of the data object from the production host to the backup storage system.


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