Patent ID: 9632876
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of protecting data, comprising: receiving a backup appliance configuration data associated with a first backup appliance associated with a first virtual machine environment at a host site, wherein the backup appliance configuration data at least indicates that the first backup appliance is configured with an IP address associated with the host site and an IP address associated with a remote replication site; and replicating the backup appliance configuration data to the remote replication site, wherein the backup appliance configuration data includes data usable at the remote replication site to provide at the remote replication site a replicated backup appliance that is associated with a second virtual machine environment at the remote replication site, wherein the IP address associated with the remote replication site is used to register the replicated backup appliance and enables the replicated backup appliance to access backup data stored by the first backup appliance and to use said backup data stored by the first backup appliance to recover to hosts at the remote replication site one or more virtual machines associated with the first virtual machine environment.