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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2016
Acronis International Gmbh, Schaffhausen, CH;
Victor Shulga, Moscow, RU;
Vasily Semyonov, Moscow, RU;
Stanislav Protasov, Moscow, RU;
Mark Shumlevich, Moscow, RU;
Serguei Beloussov, Singapore, SG;
ACRONIS INTERNATIONAL GMBH, Schaffhausen, CH;
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for performing agentless backup of a virtual machine using a temporary attached virtual disk. An example method includes creating a virtual machine disk in a datastore, loading a software application in the virtual machine disk, the software application being configured to collect metadata relating to at least one application executing in an operating system of the virtual machine, communicatively coupling the datastore to the virtual machine, collecting the metadata relating to the at least one application executing in the operating system of the virtual machine, generating a snapshot of the virtual machine, and storing a backup of the virtual machine in a backup archive based on the snapshot.