Dynamic backup and discovery of new writers of a copy service

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and memory configured to store one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of:
• generating a data structure to store information about a plurality of writers associated with a copy service;
• communicating with the copy service to gather the information, the information comprising names of the writers, writer types as being one of system or application writers, and system writer subtypes as being one of bare metal recovery (BMR) or system state recovery (SSR) writers;
• populating the data structure with the information;
• reviewing the data structure to determine whether a particular writer should participate in a backup;
• based on the review, generating a list comprising a subset of the plurality of writers, the list including writers that should participate in the backup and excluding other writers that should not participate in the backup;
• instructing, via the copy service, the writers in the list to prepare for creation of a snapshot;
• and
• upon creation of the snapshot, backing up data from the snapshot to secondary storage.

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed by one or more processors to implement a method comprising:

• generating a data structure to store information about a plurality of writers associated with a copy service;
• communicating with the copy service to gather the information, the information comprising names of the writers, writer types as being one of system or application writers, and system writer subtypes as being one of bare metal recovery (BMR) or system state recovery (SSR) writers;
• populating the data structure with the information;
• reviewing the data structure to determine whether a particular writer should participate in a backup;
• based on the review, generating a list comprising a subset of the plurality of writers, the list including writers that should participate in the backup and excluding other writers that should not participate in the backup;
• instructing, via the copy service, the writers in the list to prepare for creation of a snapshot;
• and
• upon creation of the snapshot, backing up data from the snapshot to secondary storage.