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US 11,113,157 B2Granted
Pluggable recovery in a data protection system
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorShern S. Jauhal
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Abstract
Systems and methods for performing a recovery operation for a host. A user interface is provided than enables user interface interactions that are common to or independent of the host and user interface interactions that are specific to a client backup module selected for the recovery operation. The user interface retrieves a plug-in to enable the user interface interactions that are specific to the client backup module.
Claims19
A method for preparing a recovery operation, the method comprising:
- presenting a user interface that includes a first portion and a second portion;
- selecting a client backup module from the user interface that was used to perform a backup operation;
- retrieving a plug-in based on the selected client backup module, wherein the plug-in is associated with the second portion of the user interface;
- and
- using the retrieved plug-in, configuring the recovery operation through a workflow presented in the first portion and the second portion of the user interface such that the first portion includes first elements of the recovery operation that are common to multiple recovery operations and such that the second portion includes second elements of the recovery operation that are associated with the retrieved plug-in and that are specific to the recovery operation;
- displaying the first and second elements in the user interface.
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A method for preparing a recovery operation, the method comprising:
- initiating a user interface on a device;
- identifying a host;
- identifying a client backup module through the user interface for recovery by querying the host to determine which client backup modules have been installed on the host and to select the identified client backup module was used to perform a backup of the host;
- initializing an agent on the host;
- communicating, using the agent on the host, with an agent on a backup server to perform tasks needed to configure the host for the recovery operation, wherein the tasks include adapting the user interface to include elements specific to the host being recovered based on the identified client backup module, wherein the tasks include adding a plug-into the user interface;
- configuring the recovery operation using the elements displayed in the user interface;
- and
- performing the recovery operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.