US Patent Application 17724646. INTELLIGENT FILE SYSTEM CRAWLING FOR PROTECTION OPERATION simplified abstract
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INTELLIGENT FILE SYSTEM CRAWLING FOR PROTECTION OPERATION
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Inventor(s)
Aaditya Bansal of Bangalore (IN)
Shelesh Chopra of Bangalore (IN)
Manish Sharma of Bangalore (IN)
INTELLIGENT FILE SYSTEM CRAWLING FOR PROTECTION OPERATION - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17724646 Titled 'INTELLIGENT FILE SYSTEM CRAWLING FOR PROTECTION OPERATION'
Simplified Explanation
The invention described in the abstract is a method for performing incremental backups by only crawling folders that have changed. A file system crawler compares the attributes of a folder with those in a backup's meta-data to determine if the files and sub-folders within the folder have been modified. If changes are detected, the crawler proceeds to crawl the sub-folders. If no changes are found, the crawler moves on to the next folder without crawling its sub-folders. This approach allows for faster crawling of the entire file system, as unchanged folders are not processed.
Original Abstract Submitted
One or more embodiments of the invention performs an incremental backup by crawling only those folders which have changed. By comparing a folder's attributes with those in a backup's meta-data, an intelligent file system crawler can determine if the underlying files and sub-folders of the folder have undergone a change. If they have, then the one or more embodiments of the invention proceeds to crawl the underlying sub-folders. If the folder's attributes have not changed, then the intelligent file system crawler of one or more embodiments of the invention proceeds to the next folder and does not crawl the underlying sub-folders. By doing this, one or more embodiments of the invention can crawl the entire file system quicker, since those folders that have not undergone a change since the last backup was performed, do not have their sub-folders crawled.
