Patent ID: 9483485
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for restoring in a back system allowing simultaneous full backups and incremental backups, the method comprising: receiving, by a server, a request for restoring as of a restore point-in-time; in response to the request, retrieving by the server a set of backup objects comprising the full backups and the incremental backups; sorting the set of backup objects in descending order; locating a first full backup in the set of backup objects wherein a start time of the first full backup is prior to the restore point-in-time, an end time of the first full backup is before a start time of a first incremental backup and there are no incremental backups running in parallel with the first full backup; locating a second full backup in the set of backup objects wherein a start time of a second incremental backup is before an end time of the second full backup and the second incremental backup runs in parallel with the second full backup and the first full backup is before the second full backup; locating one or more incremental backups in the set of backup objects, wherein start times of the one or more incremental backups in the set of backup objects are after the end of the first full backup; storing the first full backup and the first one or more incremental backups without the second full backup in a list of restoring objects; and sending, by the server, the list of restoring objects.