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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2004
Glenn Ricart, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Marc Epstein, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sheldon Laube, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Glenn Ricart, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Marc Epstein, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sheldon Laube, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
CenterBeam, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for data backup is disclosed in which prior to actually performing a backup operation from a subscriber computer, the backup server device checks a specified server to determine if parts of the subscriber data to be backed up can be backed up or replicated from data on the specified server. If it can, the backup server uses that specified server to create a backup of the subscriber data to be backed up. If it cannot, then the data is backed up from the subscriber computer.