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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sunil Yadav, Bangalore, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing backups of virtual machines on a host. The method includes obtaining an incremental image backup generation request associated with a virtual machine (VM) of the host; writing changed data blocks included in a storage volume associated with the VM to a backup storage; initiating the generation of a virtual synthetic full image backup on the backup storage using the changed data blocks and a previous backup of the VM; obtaining file system metadata associated with the VM; generating post processing metadata by mapping a list of the changed data blocks to file system metadata entries and the corresponding data runs associated with the changed data blocks; writing the post processing metadata with the virtual synthetic full image backup; and initiating post processing on the virtual synthetic full backup using the post processing metadata by post processing engines.