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Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kiran Kumar Madiraju Varadaraju, Bangalore, IN;

Neelabh Mam, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques to back up data are disclosed. In various embodiments, a shadow copy of a source volume is created. An excluded file is deleted from the shadow copy. One or more blocks modified in the shadow copy in connection with deleting the excluded file from the shadow copy are tracked. An incremental backup is performed, the incremental backup includes determining one or more blocks to be backed up in connection with the incremental backup based at least in part on at least one of the tracked one or more blocks modified in the shadow copy and a merged bitmap corresponding to a merger of a first bitmap associated with the shadow copy and a second bitmap associated with the source volume.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Madiraju Varadaraju, Kiran. (2017). Excluding files in a block based backup (U.S. Patent No. 9823974). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9823974

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