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TECHNIQUES FOR ESTABLISHING A FILE SYSTEM THAT EXPOSES A VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEM FOR BACKUP OPERATIONS

  • US 20130013565A1
  • Filed: 09/14/2012
  • Published: 01/10/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as executable instructions that process on one or more processors to perform the method, comprising:

  • exposing, by the processors, a list of the files having changes in a file system as an independent Virtual File System (VFS) that is used to perform a backup operation on the list of files that changed; and

    acquire, by the processors, metadata including inodes for the files, data changes of each file, and an increase or decrease in file size for each file after the changes.

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