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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Russell R. Stringham, Orem, UT (US);
Assignee:
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 17/30876 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for optimizing a backup chain using synthetic backups is described. In one embodiment, a method for creating synthetic incremental backups to optimize a backup chain comprises accessing a backup chain, which further comprises a plurality of incremental backups and determining schedule information defining a number of incremental backups to use to create one or more synthetic incremental backups representing the plurality of incremental backups from the backup chain, wherein the number of backups is defined by a numerical progression.