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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Suhas Dantkale, Solapur, IN;

Niranjan Pendharkar, Pune, IN;

Inventors:

Suhas Dantkale, Solapur, IN;

Niranjan Pendharkar, Pune, IN;

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer-implemented method for achieving file-level data-protection operations using block-level technologies may include: 1) identifying an I/O operation directed to at least one data block on a primary storage system, 2) accessing a data-protection list that uniquely identifies files that are to be protected by a data-protection operation, 3) determining that the I/O operation is directed to at least a portion of at least one file identified on the data-protection list, and then, in response to the determination, 4) performing the data-protection operation on the I/O operation. Various additional methods, systems, and configured computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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