Patent ID: 11934276
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer readable medium (CRM) comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor, enables the computer processor to perform a method for performing backup operations, the method comprising:
receiving instructions to perform a backup operation;
in response to the instructions:
identifying a writer set comprising at least one volume shadow copy service (VSS) writer operating on a volume host;
for each VSS writer in the writer set:
obtaining an incremental backup supported flag state associated with an incremental backup supported flag respective to the VSS writer;
making a determination that the incremental backup supported flag state reflects one selected from a group of states consisting of a true state and a false state;
generating, based on the determination and the one selected from the group of states, a backup container comprising at least a portion of data respective to the VSS writer and maintained on the volume host; and

writing, at least in part to complete the backup operation, at least one backup container to a backup target,
wherein the at least one backup container comprises the backup container generated for each VSS writer of the at least one VSS writer operating on the volume host, respectively.