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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Eric Christian Matthies, Millis, MA (US);
Christopher Francis Wroten, Franklin, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus of intelligent configuration for snapshot based backups. In some embodiments, this includes obtaining a snapshot method, locating a source to be backed up, locating a paring configuration, if the paring configuration cannot be located, locating one or more target devices in a storage group using the snapshot method, and if the pairing configuration is located, obtaining one or more corresponding target devices from the configuration and validating the one or more corresponding target devices within the storage group using the snapshot method.