US Patent Issued to VEEAM SOFTWARE on Sept. 8 for "Selective processing of file system objects for image level backups" (Swiss, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,723, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VEEAM SOFTWARE AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Selective processing of file system objects for image level backups" was invented by Ratmir Timashev (Baar, Switzerland) and Anton Gostev (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for reducing the size of image level backups. An example method receives backup parameters identifying a physical or Virtual Machine (VM) to backup and at least one file system object to include in the backup. The method connects to production storage corresponding to the selected physical or virtual mac...