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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2013
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ashutosh Bahadure, Lake Mary, FL (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for enabling efficient access to incremental backups may include selecting an incremental backup of a volume of data, the incremental backup of the volume of data storing blocks from the volume of data that have changed since a previous backup of the volume of data, identifying block metadata for the incremental backup that describes a location of each block within the blocks in the incremental backup, detecting synthesized block metadata for the previous backup that describes a location of each block in the volume according to a synthesized view of the volume of data from a full backup of the volume up to the previous backup, and combining the block metadata for the incremental backup with the synthesized block metadata for the previous backup to generate new synthesized block metadata for the incremental backup. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.