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US 2019/0163578 A1Published application
Application-aware virtual machine backup
AssigneeEntit Software LLC
InventorsVeeresh Mallappa Anami, Sunil Turakani
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Abstract
A method relates to backing up a VM. The method can include placing an application being hosted by a VM in a backup state and capturing a snapshot of the VM to generate a VM image of the VM. The method can further comprise resuming the application, extracting application blocks corresponding to the application from the mounted VM image, and storing the application blocks and the VM image.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- placing an application being hosted by a virtual machine (VM) in a backup state;
- capturing a snapshot of the VM to generate a VM image of the VM;
- resuming the application;
- extracting and store application blocks, corresponding to the application, from the VM image;
- and
- storing the VM image.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to:
- place an application hosted by a virtual machine (VM) in a backup state using a thin agent hosted by the VM;
- take a snapshot of the VM to generate a VM image;
- resume the application using the thin agent;
- extract and store application blocks from the VM image;
- and
- store the VM image.
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A system to backup a virtual machine (VM), comprising:
- a proxy to:
- push a thin agent to a first VM hosted by a computing device;
- place a plurality of applications hosted by the first VM in a backup state using the thin agent;
- take a snapshot of the first VM to generate a VM image;
- resume the plurality of applications using the thin agent;
- mount the VM image;
- extract application data blocks corresponding to the plurality of applications from the VM image that is mounted;
- provide the application data blocks and the VM image to a media server;
- provide the VM image to the media server;
- the media server to:
- perform a de-duplication operation on the VM image and the application data blocks to remove duplicated data blocks;
- and
- store the application data blocks and the VM image in backup storage devices.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.