US 11,947,424 B2
Smart cataloging of excluded data
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore (IN); Sunil Yadav, Bangalore (IN); Manish Sharma, Bangalore (IN); and Aaditya Bansal, Bangalore (IN)
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. 17/721,388.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333936 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1451 (2013.01) [G06F 2201/84 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for performing a backup, the method comprising:
crawling a target file system of a target production host;
identifying, based on the crawling, files that will not be backed up;
identifying, for at least one file of the files that will not be backed up, a reason that the at least one file will not be backed up;
storing details of the files that will not be backed up to a separate file, wherein the details comprise a listing of the at least one file and the reason;
notifying, using the separate file, a user of the files that will not be backed up, wherein notifying comprises:
presenting a table on a graphical user interface that includes the details; and
performing the backup of remaining files, wherein the remaining files are not listed in the separate file, wherein performing the backup comprises:
generating a backup copy of the remaining files;
causing to store the backup copy in a backup storage device; and
causing to store the separate file in the backup storage device.