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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sunil Yadav, Punjab, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for managing the storage of file based backups (FBBs) includes obtaining, by a backup agent operating on a production host environment, a FBB generation request for plurality of assets at a point-in-time, wherein the backup agent is associated with a plurality of backup policies, in response to the FBB generation request: generating a FBB of the plurality of assets, performing an attribute analysis on the FBB metadata file to determine a directory service associated with each of the plurality of assets, obtaining a first sub-asset and a second sub-asset based on the attribute analysis, assigning a backup policy of the plurality of backup policies to each of the two sub-assets, and performing a storage of the FBB based on the backup policies assigned to each of the sub-assets.