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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
May. 05, 2020
Veritas Technologies Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cohesity, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting data may include (i) detecting that a data storage protection protocol for backing up a virtual machine is switching from a hypervisor native snapshot solution to a continuous data protection solution, (ii) toggling, at a specific toggling time, an input/output tap to switch to the continuous data protection solution, (iii) capturing, at a specific snapshot time and in response to switching to the continuous data protection solution, an incremental snapshot that includes differences in the virtual machine between a last snapshot captured prior to the specific toggling time and the specific snapshot time, and (iv) generating a synthetic snapshot based on a combination of the incremental snapshot captured at the specific snapshot time and a set of at least one snapshot taken prior to the specific toggling time. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.