BACKING-UP BLOCKS FROM VIRTUAL DISKS IN DIFFERENT VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENTS HAVING DIFFERENT BLOCK LENGTHS TO A COMMON DATA FORMAT BLOCK LENGTH

• Main Authors: Hoobler, III, Delbert B, Smith, James P, Hochberg, Avishai H, Derk, David G, Edwards, Jr., Robert C, Fruchtman, Michael S, Piletski, Vadzim I
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.12.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks. Data is stored for a first virtual disk that represents data in a first format and metadata for the first virtual disk in a common data form...