US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 3 for "Enabling exclusion of assets in image backups" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,726, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enabling exclusion of assets in image backups" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing backups of virtual machines on a host. The method includes obtaining a full image backup generation request associated with a virtual machine (VM) of the host; obtaining a list of files to exclude from the full image backup from the data protection manager; obtaining file system metadata associated with the VM; identifying an exclusion ...