US 11,748,205 B2
Network informed policy creation for optimizing multiple backup operations in a multiple source system
Adam Brenner, Mission Viejo, CA (US); Arun Murti, Mission Viejo, CA (US); and Mark Malamut, Aliso Viejo, CA (US)
Assigned to Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/721,681.
Application 17/721,681 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/507,000, filed on Oct. 21, 2021, granted, now 11,556,427.
Application 17/507,000 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/490,836, filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0096316 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1461 (2013.01) [G06F 2201/84 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of optimizing backup operations for a data protection system having a plurality of sources backing up data to one or more targets through a plurality of backups, comprising:
determining if any two backup operations share a common route between a source and a target for transferring data within a defined data transfer period comprising one or more individual backup windows, and denoted as shared backups;
determining, for each shared backup:
a size of a dataset to be saved in each shared backup,
an available bandwidth in each transfer window of the one or more transfer windows for transfer data between the source and target,
an order of the backup operations based on first ordering the backups based on decreasing dataset size and second ordering the transfer windows in order of decreasing bandwidth; and
matching the backups to the transfer windows in accordance with the first ordering and second ordering.