Techniques for data backup management
AssigneeSymantec Corporation
InventorsSaurabh Sitaram Karmarkar, Ganesh Prabhakar Tambat, Aswad Shrikrishna Kulkarni
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Abstract
Techniques for data backup management are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for data backup management comprising identifying a base image for a plurality of data backup endpoints, creating, using at least one computer processor, a backup of the base image, storing the backup of the base image as a common backup for the plurality of data backup endpoints, and tracking changes to the base image at one or more of the plurality of data backup endpoints.
Claims16
A method for data backup management comprising:
- identifying a base image for a plurality of data backup clients;
- creating, using at least one computer processor, a backup of the base image;
- storing the backup of the base image as a stored common backup for the plurality of data backup clients;
- calculating, at a server, a fingerprint for one or more files of the base image;
- distributing the calculated fingerprint from the server to at least one of the plurality of data backup clients;
- tracking changes to the base image at one or more of the plurality of data backup clients;
- and
- backing up at least one of the plurality of data backup clients, wherein a resultant backup of the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients comprises at least one tracked change of the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients, and wherein the stored common backup of the base image allows backup processing to perform an incremental backup which skips backup of unchanged files on the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients.
An article of manufacture for data backup management, the article of manufacture comprising:
- at least one non-transitory processor readable medium;
- and
- instructions stored on the at least one medium;
- wherein the instructions are readable from the at least one medium by at least one processor and thereby cause the at least one processor to operate so as to:
- identify a base image for a plurality of data backup clients;
- create a backup of the base image;
- store the backup of the base image as a stored common backup for the plurality of data backup clients;
- calculate, at a server, a fingerprint for one or more files of the base image;
- distribute the calculated fingerprint from the server to at least one of the plurality of data backup clients;
- track changes to the base image at one or more of the plurality of data backup clients;
- and
- back up at least one of the plurality of data backup clients, wherein a resultant backup of the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients comprises at least one tracked change of the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients and wherein the stored common backup of the base image allows backup processing to perform an incremental backup which skips backup of unchanged files on the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients.
A system for data backup management comprising:
- one or more processors communicatively coupled to a network;
- wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
- identify a base image for a plurality of data backup clients;
- create, using at least one computer processor, a backup of the base image;
- store the backup of the base image as a stored common backup for the plurality of data backup clients;
- calculate, at a server, a fingerprint for one or more files of the base image;
- distribute the calculated fingerprint from the server to at least one of the plurality of data backup clients;
- track changes to the base image at one or more of the plurality of data backup clients;
- and
- back up at least one of the plurality of data backup clients, wherein a resultant backup of the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients comprises at least one tracked change of the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients and wherein the common stored backup of the base image allows backup processing to perform an incremental backup which skips backup of unchanged files on the at least one of the plurality of data backup clients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.