Patent ID: 9336250
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for efficiently backing up data, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a volume of data scheduled for a backup by a computing system; before taking a snapshot of the volume of data for the backup: determining that resource usage of the computing system will fall below a predetermined threshold for a period of time; identifying at least one unit of data in the volume of data to copy to a backup image for the backup during the period of time; in response to determining that the resource usage of the computing system will fall below the predetermined threshold for the period of time, copying the unit of data to the backup image during the period of time; taking the snapshot of the volume of data; after taking the snapshot of the volume of data, copying at least one additional unit of data from the snapshot to the backup image to make the backup image consistent with the snapshot.