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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
Niranjan Pendharkar, NCL/Pashan, IN;
Samir Desai, Maharashtra, IN;
Niranjan Pendharkar, NCL/Pashan, IN;
Samir Desai, Maharashtra, IN;
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method for efficiently backing up data in thin-provisioned environments may include: 1) identifying a volume to be backed up, 2) identifying a thin-provisioned storage system that contains storage space allocated to the volume, 3) obtaining information from the thin-provisioned storage system that identifies portions of the volume for which storage space has been allocated on the thin-provisioned storage system, and then 4) creating a backup of the volume by invoking read operations only for those portions of the volume for which storage space has been allocated on the thin-provisioned storage system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.