Patent ID: 7587565

Claim:
A system for performing scheduled backups of data generated by a production application operating on a first platform located on a host computer, the first platform operating on an operating system of the host computer, the data being stored on a production volume in a primary storage that is remote from the host computer, the first platform creating a clone volume of the production volume, the operating system booting off a local hard drive and the first platform booting off of the production volume in the remote primary storage such that the operating system cannot access the first platform or production application to perform backup operations and the first platform being unable to perform backup operations, the system comprising: a backup server configured to schedule and initiate one or more backups of the clone volume; and a proxy host configured to receive a backup command from the backup server, wherein the proxy host is separate from the host computer, the proxy host comprising: a host computer manager communicatively coupled to the host computer and configured to initiate operations to be carried out by the host computer, the operations being configured to allow the proxy host to directly communicate with the primary storage when performed; a snapshot manager communicatively coupled to the primary storage and configured to initiate creation of a snapshot from a clone volume; and a backup and recovery manager communicatively coupled to the backup server and configured to save the snapshot in the primary storage.