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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sunil Yadav, Bangalore, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Aaditya Rakesh Bansal, Bagalore, IN;
Manish Sharma, Bangalore, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for performing a data backup process on a cluster includes: obtaining a backup generation request for virtual machines; in response to obtaining the backup generation request: generating a first set of backup groupings based on the backup generation request where each of the first set of backup groupings includes at least one of the virtual machines; issuing a disable migration command to a plurality of production hosts where each of the plurality of production hosts is associated with at least one of the virtual machines; identifying, after the issuing, a virtual machine of the virtual machines that is migrating; removing, based on the identifying, the virtual machine from the first set of backup groupings to obtain a second set of backup groupings where the virtual machine is placed in an excluded group after the removing; and backing up the second set of backup groupings.