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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alioune Thiam, Hugo, MN (US);
Girish Jorapurkar, Woodbury, MN (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for facilitating fault-tolerant backup jobs may include (1) receiving, at a media server, a backup assignment from a master server, (2) detecting a communication failure that inhibits communication between the media server and the master server, (3) initiating a backup job at the media server based at least in part on the backup assignment received from the master server, (4) caching, due at least in part to the communication failure, a catalog of the backup job at the media server instead of forwarding the catalog of the backup job to the master server in real-time during the backup job, and then (5) transferring the catalog of the backup job to the master server upon determining that communication between the media server and the master server is no longer inhibited. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.