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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Kaushik Gupta, Pune, IN;
Shiv S. Kumar, Pune, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system can maintain respective numbers of changed bytes for respective backup paths of a file system, which indicate how many bytes have changed since respective most-recent backups of the respective backup paths. The system can, while performing a backup of a backup path of the respective backup paths, for respective tasks of the backup, determine respective amounts of time spent backing up respective files associated with the respective tasks, and respective file sizes of the respective files, determine a mean time to transfer a byte based on the respective amounts of time spent backing up the respective files, and the respective file sizes, determine an estimated time of completing the backup based on the mean time to transfer a byte and the number of changed bytes for the backup path, and store an indication of the estimated time of completing the backup.