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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
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 pairing using a lookup database for snapshot based backups. In some embodiments, this includes obtaining a snapshot method, locating a source to be backed up, searching a database using the source and the snapshot method, if the searching did not find at least one matching record, locating a target device in a storage group and pairing the target device with the source, if the searching found at least one matching record, obtaining a corresponding target device from the at least one matching record and pairing the corresponding target device with the source, and performing a backup of the source using the snapshot method.