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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2012
Timothy Michael Naftel, Longmont, CO (US);
James Robert Olson, Afton, MN (US);
Timothy Michael Naftel, Longmont, CO (US);
James Robert Olson, Afton, MN (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for managing virtual machine backups are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for managing virtual machine backups comprising opening a file containing a virtual disk of a virtual machine, parsing the file to identify one or more partitions of the virtual disk, determining file system type for each of one or more partitions, identifying a boot partition in the file, parsing, using at least one computer processor, file system information of the boot partition to identify volume information; and generating volume composition information using the identified volume information.