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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for managing data protection includes initiating, by a backup server, discovery for a new virtual machine (VM) in a production environment, performing, using an active directory listener (AD), listening on active directory (AD) applications in the production environment, wherein the new VM executes one of the AD applications, and wherein the one of the AD applications comprises a set of AD objects and a directory service for managing the set of AD objects, storing, based on the listening, monitored changes to obtain stored changes in the AD applications, generating a change report based on the stored changes, and using the change report to perform an incremental backup of the new VM and store a VM backup of the new VM and an AD application backup of the one of the AD applications in a backup storage system.