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

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 7, the method further comprising:
prior to the determination:
making a second determination that the incremental backup supported flag state reflects a null state;
based on the second determination:
selecting a file-system object of the at least one file-system object associated with the VSS writer;
obtaining, for and descriptive of the file-system object, at least a portion of file-system object metadata and at least a portion of past file-system object metadata;
making a third determination that the at least portion of file-system object metadata and the at least portion of past file-system object metadata fail to meet an incremental backup criteria; and
modifying, based on the third determination, the incremental backup supported flag state from the null state to the false state.