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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2009
James Robert Olson, Afton, MN (US);
Timothy M. Naftel, Longmont, CO (US);
David Teater, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Sinh D. Nguyen, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
James P. Ohr, Saint Paul, MN (US);
James Robert Olson, Afton, MN (US);
Timothy M. Naftel, Longmont, CO (US);
David Teater, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Sinh D. Nguyen, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
James P. Ohr, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for backing up a virtual machine executing on a virtualization server computer are described. A snapshot of a virtual disk image file of the virtual machine may be created on a network-attached storage (NAS) device coupled to the virtualization server computer. The snapshot may be used to backup the virtual disk image file from the NAS device to a backup storage device without transferring the virtual disk image file through the virtualization server computer. Mapping information useable to access the plurality of files stored in the virtual disk image file on an individual basis may be created and stored together with the backup copy of the virtual disk image file on the backup storage device.