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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2010
Alexei Jelvis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ilia Langouev, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Ping LU, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aleksey Vasilyevich Pershin, Fremont, CA (US);
Erik Weathers, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexei Jelvis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ilia Langouev, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Ping Lu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aleksey Vasilyevich Pershin, Fremont, CA (US);
Erik Weathers, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment is a method of installing a block-level write tracking driver in a Microsoft Windows™ operating system so that no reboot of the system is need, another embodiment is a method of installing a block-level write tracking driver in a Linux operating system so that no reboot of the system is needed, and still another embodiment is a method of tracking block-level writes to snapshots under newer Microsoft Windows™ operating systems.