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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 17, 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);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage medium for data collection. The method includes: determining, based on a flag associated with at least some nodes in a tree representation in the backup system, whether a node in the tree representation is associated with a valid backup or an invalid backup; in response to determining that the node is associated with a valid backup, keeping the node and nodes referred to by the node; and in response to determining that the node is associated with an invalid backup, deleting the node.