US 12,079,088 B2
Hybrid technique to protect a registry
Amarendra Behera, Bangalore (IN); Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore (IN); Tushar Dethe, Bangalore (IN); Roland Fernandes, Grimsby (CA); and Sunil Yadav, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/842,289.
Prior Publication US 2023/0409434 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 11/1448 (2013.01) [G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of protecting a registry of a host, the registry comprising system hive files and user hive files, the method comprising:
instructing a registry writer via a copy service on the host to prepare for generation of a snapshot, the registry writer being responsible for saving the system hive files to disk before the snapshot is generated;
generating the snapshot;
receiving, from the registry writer, a reporting of the system hive files;
communicating with an application programming interface (API) exposed by an operating system of the host to identify the user hive files; and
backing up, from the snapshot to a secondary storage, the system hive files reported by the registry writer and the user hive files identified using the API exposed by the operating system.