Acronis Assigned Two Patents

Using performance-maintaining commands for generating backup of unsupported file systems
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,360,108) developed by Per, Yuri, Dolgoprudny, Russia, Protasov, Stanislav, Shmulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei, Singapore, Singapore, for “system and method of using performance-maintaining commands for generating a backup of unsupported file systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is disclosed for using performance-maintaining commands for generating backup data of an unsupported file system. An example method includes intercepting a plurality of data storage commands transmitted from the file system to a storage device, where the plurality of data storage commands indicating sectors of the memory of the computer that do not contain valid data. The method further includes analyzing the plurality of data storage commands to determine sectors of the memory that contains valid data, generating a data structure that indicates the sectors of the memory that contain valid data and the sector of the memory that do not contain valid data, and subsequently generating the backup data copy of the memory of the computer based on the data structure.”

The patent application was filed on January 5, 2016 (14/987,868).

Snapshotless backup
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,359,951) developed by Per, Yuri, Moscow Region, Russia, Lyadvinsky, Maxim V., Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei M., Costa Del Sol, Singapore, Egorov, Dmitry, Moscow Region, Russia, and Borodin, Alexey, Moscow, Russia, for a “snapshotless backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for snapshotless backup are described. The method may include receiving, via a backup agent, an indication of a virtual machine to be backed up in a backup archive file. The backup agent may run outside of the virtual machine. The virtual machine may be hosted by a virtualization host device. The method may further include identifying, via the backup agent, a virtual disk associated with the virtual machine indicated to be backed up. The method may also include tracking, via a virtualization host agent running on the virtualization host device outside the virtual machine, changes to the virtual disk associated with the virtual machine on a sector level basis. The method may additionally include reading the virtual disk and transmitting sectors from the virtual disk to the backup archive file on a first pass.”

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2014 (14/320,496)