| CPC G06F 11/1469 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01)] | 33 Claims |

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1. A method for generating a digital backup of a database application hosted on a virtual machine, comprising:
accessing a database application hosted on a virtual machine, the virtual machine deployed in a computing environment;
exporting data stored in the database application to a plurality of files, each file utilizing a column-oriented storage format;
generating a virtualization backup only of the virtual machine; and
generating a data backup of the database application based on the plurality of files.
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