System and method of backup grouping with improved computational efficiency
US10642528B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 18, 2018 |
| Grant date | May 5, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 17, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/815
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A production host for hosting virtual machines includes a persistent storage and a production agent. The persistent storage stores a backup groupings queue and a backup process stack. The production agent obtains backup generation requests for the virtual machines; in response to obtaining the backup generation requests, generates the backup groupings queue based on the backup generation requests; identifies a maximum parallelism of the production host based on resources utilized by a portion of the virtual machines specified by the backup groupings queue; consolidates the backup groupings queue to generate the backup process stack; and generates backups for virtual machines specified by the backup process stack in parallel based on the maximum parallelism.
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