Volume or virtual machine level backup and generating placeholders for virtual machine files

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10650057
APP PUB NO 20180075166A1
SERIAL NO

15684409

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According to certain aspects, a method can include creating a backup copy of data associated with a virtual machine (VM) on one or more secondary storage devices, wherein the backup copy includes corresponding secondary copies of a plurality of files associated with the VM; analyzing metadata associated with the secondary copies to determine which of the plurality files are eligible to be removed from the primary storage device; in response determining that one or more files are eligible to be removed from the primary storage device, for respective file of the one or more files: determining whether the respective file has been changed since a first time at which the backup copy of the data associated with the VM was created; in response to determining that the respective file has not changed since the first time, removing the respective file; and adding a file placeholder for the removed file.

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COMMVAULT SYSTEMS INC1 COMMVAULT WAY ATTN LEGAL (PATENTS) TINTON FALLS NJ 07724

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dornemann, Henry Wallace Eatontown, US 152 10859
Kottomtharayil, Rajiv Marlboro, US 330 37611
Pawar, Rahul S Marlboro, US 179 14799
Ramaswamy, Chitra Monmouth Junction, US 15 463
Sancheti, Ashwin Gautamchand Ocean, US 50 3888

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