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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1999
Scott Dunham, Billerica, MA (US);
Rulian Fiske, Wayland, MA (US);
Hal Hansen, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Sanjay Jain, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Madhav Mutalik, Southboro, MA (US);
Edgar St. Pierre, Fall River, MA (US);
Puneet Lal, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Uresh Vahalia, Waban, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Described is a technique for a backup and restoration of data in a network that includes a multi-lingual file system and a multi-lingual network file server. Multiple meta data files are associated with a single data file in the network. Provided are services for packaging the metadata as a single parameter of an application programming interface (API) for a particular data file being backed up or restored over a network. These techniques may be used in both full and incremental backups and restores of data over a network.