Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Block based backup
- Patent Title (中): 基于块的备份
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Application No.: US13250637Application Date: 2011-09-30
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Publication No.: US08738870B1Publication Date: 2014-05-27
- Inventor: Shankar Balasubramanian , Vladimir Mandic , Sriprasad Bhat Kasargod , Anand Raj
- Applicant: Shankar Balasubramanian , Vladimir Mandic , Sriprasad Bhat Kasargod , Anand Raj
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC Corporation
- Current Assignee: EMC Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agent Theodore A. Chen; Krishnendu Gupta
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/16

Abstract:
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for protecting data. In some embodiments, this includes taking a snapshot of a physical volume with a native snapshot program, reading the snapshot block by block, creating a blank virtual container on a deduplicated virtual storage device, and populating the blank virtual container block by block based on reading the snapshot.
Public/Granted literature
- US2113509A Crankshaft chuck Public/Granted day:1938-04-05
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