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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 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 virtual machines includes obtaining a backup request for a full backup of a VM, in response to the backup request: performing a logical slicing of VM data associated with the VM to obtain a set of logical slices, storing the set of backup slices in a backup storage system, after storing the set of backup slices, obtaining backup metadata associated with the VM from the backup storage system, performing, using the backup metadata, a slice file system analysis on each backup slice of the set of backup slices associated with the VM to obtain file system information for a portion of VM data stored in each backup slice of the set of backup slices, and generating, from each backup slice associated with the full backup, a file indexing system for each backup slice in the set of backup slices using the file system information.