Patent ID: 11940880
Assignee: DRUVA INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method to identify modified folders in a storage module comprising a plurality of folders during an incremental backup scan, the method comprising:
receiving an input comprising a modification time limit from a user;
generating a filetype database comprising a list of filetypes in each folder of the plurality of folders;
generating a file modification database comprising a list of filetypes modified and a corresponding latest modification time for each of the modified filetypes;
checking, at one or more times of the incremental backup scan, whether each folder of the plurality of folders contains a filetype listed in the file modification database;
after a filetype is checked as being listed in the file modification database, comparing a latest modification time thereof to the modification time limit;
identifying a folder as a modified folder if the latest modification time is less than modification time limit and
scanning the identified folder during the incremental backup scan.