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Systems and methods to detect deleted files

  • US 10,296,607 B2
  • Filed: 04/02/2018
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method to protect data deleted between data protection operations in a data management system, the method comprising:

  • monitoring, with one or more computer processors comprising hardware, data that has been protected with one or more data protection operations;

    automatically monitoring, with the one or more computer processors, one or more data operations in primary storage that occur after the one or more data protection operations;

    when the one or more data operations is a deletion operation, automatically identifying with the one or more computer processors, deletion data associated with the deletion operation and a file path associated with the deletion data;

    prior to performing the deletion operation, determining with the one or more computer processors, whether the deletion data has been protected by the one or more data protection operations, and when the deletion data has not been protected, automatically converting the deletion data to at least one hidden file;

    automatically copying with the one or more computer processors the at least one hidden file and the file path to temporary storage;

    performing the deletion operation; and

    automatically copying, during a subsequent second data protection operation, the at least one hidden file stored in the temporary storage to a location on one or more secondary storage devices based at least in part on the file path stored in the temporary storage.

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