Veeam Assigned Patent

Veeam Software AG, Baar, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (9,823,877) developed by Vasilyev, Alexey, and Baranov, Alexander, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, for a “virtual machine backup from storage snapshot.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for virtual machine, (VM) backup from a storage snapshot. An embodiment operates by receiving selective backup parameters including a VM to backup and then creating a VM snapshot associated with the VM. Next, an offset table associated with a virtual disk of the VM stored on a storage is retrieved. The embodiment further includes generating a storage snapshot and deleting the VM snapshot and then promoting the storage snapshot to a new logical unit number. The promoted storage snapshot is then mounted to the backups server. The virtual disk data is backed up to a backup storage using the offset table from the storage snapshot. The storage snapshot is dismounted from the backup server and deleted from the storage.”

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2016 (15/380,608)