Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Granular dump backup restart
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Application No.: US15071282Application Date: 2016-03-16
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Publication No.: US10684918B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Krishna Murthy Chandraiah setty Narasingarayanapeta , Vijay Srinath , Rakesh Bhargava M R
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F16/00
- IPC: G06F16/00 ; G06F11/00 ; G06F16/23 ; G06F11/14

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for restarting a dump backup. For example, a phase offset table is used to track a directory transfer phase offset and a file transfer phase offset of phases of a dump backup. An offset map is used to map inodes, of data being backed up, to offsets within a backup image within which the data is being backed up. The phase offset table and/or the offset map are evaluated using a bytes written value to identify a phase during which the dump backup aborted and to identify a restart point. Accordingly, the dump backup is restarted at the restart point. In this way, the dump backup may be restarted during any phase and/or at any point using the bytes written value, the phase offset table, and the offset map without the need for additional information such as a file history.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170270008A1 GRANULAR DUMP BACKUP RESTART Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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