Veeam Assigned Two Patents

Selective processing of file system objects for image level backups
Veeam Software AG, Baar, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,068,349) developed by Timashev, Ratmir, Baar, Switzerland, and Gostev, Anton, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, for “selective processing of file system objects for image level backups.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for reducing the size of image level backups. An example method receives backup parameters identifying a physical or Virtual Machine (VM) to backup and at least one file system object to include in the backup. The method connects to production storage corresponding to the selected physical or virtual machine and obtains access to data stored in disk corresponding to the selected file system object(s). The method fetches file allocation table (FAT) blocks from the disk and parses contents of the FAT blocks to determine if the disk blocks correspond to the selected file system object(s). The method creates a backup disk image FAT comprising blocks corresponding to the selected file system object(s, The method creates a reconstructed disk image FAT blocks corresponding to the backup FAT and disk image data blocks belonging to the selected file system object(s) and all other disk image data blocks are saved as zero blocks. A reconstructed disc image is compressed and stored in a backup file on backup storage, or replicated, copied) to another storage intact.”

The patent application was filed on November 21, 2018 (16/197,644).

User authorization for file level restoration from image level backups
Veeam Software AG, Baar, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (11,016,856) developed by Gostev, Anton, Saint-Petersburg, Russia , for “user authorization for file level restoration from image level backups.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for enabling user authorization to perform a file level recovery from an image level backup of a virtual machine without the need for access control by an administrator. Specifically, embodiments enable an access control mechanism for controlling access to stored image level backups of a virtual machine. In an embodiment, the virtual machine includes a backup application user interface that can be used to send a restoration request to a backup server. The restoration request can include a machine identifier and a user identifier of the user logged onto the virtual machine. The backup server includes a backup application that determines whether or not the machine identifier contained in the restoration request can be matched to a machine identifier of a virtual machine present in one of the virtual machine backups stored on the backup server.”

The patent application was filed on August 27, 2019 (16/552,720).