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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Harald I. Skardal, Nashua, NH (US);
Stephen L. Manley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Harald I. Skardal, Nashua, NH (US);
Stephen L. Manley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing a plurality of snapshots as provided. A set of metadata describing a file system is contained within the file system so that a snapshot of the file system includes the associated metadata. Backup client file systems are restored to a backup server using conventional dump and restore techniques. The backup server then utilizes a user-defined snapshot management schedule to manage the set of backups associated with the backup server. Such management of snapshots can include deletion of snapshots based upon a variety of parameters including the time stamp.