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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for coalescing a plurality of snapshots into a single destination volume file system. Each snapshot and its replicated file system is replicated in a directory associated with the destination file system in which the coalesced snapshots are stored. The destination file system can be associated with a backup server and information from each of the plurality of snapshots can be transferred to the backup server by an respective backup clients over a network. Information can be passed to the backup server from the backup client(s) using a dump and restore process.