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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRobert Fries, Vinay Badami, Michael Michael, Shiraz Somji
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A backup administrator can backup files from a production server on any of a plurality of different bases. In particular, some files can be replicated on a changed-byte basis. In other cases, files can be backed up by replicating updated copies of the entire file, or even byte blocks of the file. Determinations as to how a replication agent will back up a certain file or set of files can be made by a backup administrator, automatically through a predefined logic, or dynamically based on defined criteria. Corresponding agents at the production server can then flag these files as indicated. Thus, at a later point, when the DPM server requests the updates of each file, the production server can either send over copies of the changed file bytes, entire copies of the changed file itself, or even changed blocks of a file, as appropriate.
At a data protection manager server of a computerized environment in which a plurality of files in a file system of a production server are backed up to a storage medium volume using a plurality of replication mechanisms, a method of automatically determining an appropriate replication mechanism for backing up the plurality of files, comprising the acts of:
At a production server of a computerized environment in which a plurality of files in a file system of the production server are backed up to a storage medium using a plurality of replication mechanisms, a method of backing up file updates to the storage medium in accordance with the plurality of replication mechanisms, comprising the acts of:
At a data protection manager server of a computerized environment in which a plurality of files in a file system of a production server are backed up to a storage volume using a plurality of replication mechanisms, a computer program product having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause one or more processors at the data protection manager server to perform a method comprising the following:
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