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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2010
Kuldeep Nagarkar, Pune, IN;
Ashish Govind Khurange, Pune, IN;
Kuldeep Nagarkar, Pune, IN;
Ashish Govind Khurange, Pune, IN;
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for off-host backups of striped volumes may include identifying a striped volume of data on which to perform an off-host backup operation. The computer-implemented method may also include identifying a plurality of storage devices underlying the striped volume of data. The computer-implemented method may further include identifying stripe-aware extent metadata for the off-host backup operation. The computer-implemented method may additionally include reading data for the off-host backup operation from the plurality of storage devices in parallel using the stripe-aware extent metadata. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.