Patent ID: 11953996
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for performing data protection of file system data on a host, the method comprising:
obtaining a data access request for a file corresponding to a placeholder file of a placeholder file system from an application during a backup access session;
obtaining, in response to the data access request, file system data associated with the file from a backup storage using backup metadata associated with the placeholder file;
providing the file system data associated with the file to the application;
making, after the providing, a determination that the file is modified by the application;
in response to the determination:
flagging the placeholder file;
making a second determination that the backup access session has ended;
in response to the second determination:
generating modification metadata associated with the file corresponding to the flagged placeholder file based on user preferences;
storing the modified file in the backup storage; and
providing the modification metadata to a data protection manager.