Invention Grant
US08321377B2 Creating host-level application-consistent backups of virtual machines
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创建虚拟机的主机级应用程序一致性备份
- Patent Title: Creating host-level application-consistent backups of virtual machines
- Patent Title (中): 创建虚拟机的主机级应用程序一致性备份
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Application No.: US11405236Application Date: 2006-04-17
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Publication No.: US08321377B2Publication Date: 2012-11-27
- Inventor: Michael L. Michael , William L. Scheidel , Paul Brandon Luber , Paul Adrian Oltean , Ran Kalach
- Applicant: Michael L. Michael , William L. Scheidel , Paul Brandon Luber , Paul Adrian Oltean , Ran Kalach
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Woodcock Washburn LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00

Abstract:
A host server hosting one or more virtual machines can back up host volumes and the one or more virtual machines installed thereon in an application-consistent manner. In one implementation, a host-level requestor instructs a host-level writer to identify which virtual machines qualify for application-consistent backups. The host-level requestor then instructs the host-level writer to initiate virtual machine backups through guest-level requesters in each appropriately-configured virtual machine, wherein the virtual machines create application-consistent backups within the virtual machine volumes. The host-level requester then initiates snapshots of the server volumes on the host-level. The virtual machine-level snapshots can thus be retrieved from within the host-level snapshots of the server volumes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070244938A1 Creating host-level application-consistent backups of virtual machines Public/Granted day:2007-10-18
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