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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Arun Murti, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Adam Brenner, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Mark Malamut, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Providing data protection by distributing backup data among a large plurality of distributed devices. A number of networked devices are deployed to protect data of a target device in the network. Each device of contains memory sufficient to store at least a portion of backed up data from the target device. Index information for backup data of the target device stored in each device. A cyber-attack condition is detected by a heartbeat or canary signal. Upon detection of an attack the devices enter a lockdown mode. The index information is used to reconstruct the backed up data from the portion of backed up data stored on each respective device.