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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Aaditya Rakesh, Punjab, IN;
Upanshu Singhal, Bangalore, IN;
Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor, Bengaluru, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for sizing backup infrastructure. The method includes: receiving a sizing request including an asset protection policy covering an asset of the backup infrastructure, the asset protection policy at least specifying the asset; based on receiving the sizing request: creating an asset snapshot of the asset; mounting the asset snapshot to obtain a mounted asset snapshot through which asset snapshot data of the asset snapshot is accessible; partitioning the asset snapshot data into a plurality of asset snapshot data slices; computing, at least based on a cardinality of the plurality of asset snapshot data slices, a number of proxy nodes of the backup infrastructure required to collectively perform a prospective backup operation entailing the asset snapshot data; and providing, in reply to the sizing request, a sizing response at least specifying the number of proxy nodes required to collectively perform the prospective backup operation.