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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Adam Brenner, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Mark Malamut, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Arun Murti, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are described for a method and system of applying data protection software mechanisms to network devices to auto-discover the networking equipment, save changes from memory (TCAM) to local storage, backup changes to protection storage, provide auditing and tracking history of changes, and provide the ability to deploy test/development copies of changes using software defined networking techniques. A coordinator protects network devices organized into a plurality of partitions by creating a backup of each network device, pushing backup policies to individual data protection units for the network devices within each partition to provide a consistent-state backup of the network devices, and backing up the configuration changes of the network devices to a protection storage device.