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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for backing up virtual machine data may include (1) identifying a volume of data for a guest system within a virtual machine that may be scheduled for a backup from outside the guest system, (2) identifying, before the backup may be scheduled to occur, a plurality of blocks within the volume of data that have changed since a previous backup of the volume of data, (3) partially performing the backup by copying the plurality of blocks to a backup image and (4) completing the backup from outside the guest system once the backup may be scheduled to occur by copying to the backup image an additional plurality of blocks within the volume of data that have changed since identifying the plurality of blocks. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.