Abstract: A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for increasing speed during synchronization or restore are described. The method may include acquiring list of items to be synchronized or restored. The method may further include defining a set of storage sources available to a client computer. The method may also include mounting the available storage sources to the client computer. The method may additionally include determining a storage intersection of items in the list based on the items being available in more than one mounted storage device. Moreover, the method may include, in response to determining a set of items that has a storage intersection, synchronizing or restoring the items based on at least one of a speed of download and a network latency.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for backing up a virtual machine by creating consistent copies of application data are described. The method may include creating a snapshot of a virtual machine running on a host system. The method may further include determining if the snapshot has a snapshot ID and creating the snapshot ID if the snapshot does not have the snapshot ID. The method may also include creating a virtual machine restoration script configured to roll back the virtual machine to a state corresponding to the snapshot based on the snapshot ID. The method may additionally include backing up the host system in a backup archive while the virtual machine continues operating.

Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for creating an archive of a set of logical storage units stored on at least one storage medium. A first plurality of LSU descriptors may be generated. Each LSU descriptor may describe a current version of one of the set of LSUs at about the time of the generating. A first archive may be read to produce a first archive plurality of LSU descriptors. Each of the first archive plurality of LSU descriptors may describe a version of one of the set of LSUs when the first archive was created. The first archive plurality of LSU descriptors may be compared with the first plurality of LSU descriptors to identify a first LSU from the set of LSUs that has an associated LSU descriptor that does not match a corresponding LSU descriptor from the first archive plurality of LSU descriptors.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, computing system, and system for increasing speed of a file restore from an archive storage device are described. The method may include receiving, at a computing device, a list of files to be restored from the archive storage device and file location data associated with one or more files from the list of files to be restored. The method may further include determining, at the computing device, a file restoration sequence for the one or more files from the list of files to be restored based upon, at least in part, the file location data. The method may also include restoring, from the archive storage device, the one or more files from the list of files to be restored based upon, at least in part, the file restoration sequence.