Abstract: Writers on a host and associated with a copy service are identified. The identification includes names of the writers and writer types as being system or application writers. For each writer identified as a system writer, a size of the system writer is calculated and a check is made as to whether a volume associated with the system writer includes system data. When the volume include system data, the volume is marked as a critical volume and a size of the critical volume is obtained. A tally is maintained summing the sizes of the system writer and critical volume.

Abstract: A system including persistent storage for storing an object repository and a user data backup. The system also includes a manager that obtains fragmented user data associated with an object that is potentially duplicative of an object stored in the object repository; makes a determination that the object is duplicative based on a copy of the object stored in the object repository; in response to making the determination, adds the fragmented user data to a user data backup without adding the object to the backup; associates the fragmented user data in the user data backup with the copy of the object stored in the object repository; and stores the user data backup in the persistent storage.

Abstract: A backup manager for managing backup services includes persistent storage and a backup analyzer. The persistent storage includes a backup data repository and protection policies. The backup analyzer identifies a new backup stored in backup storage; performs a backup compatibility analysis on the new backup to determine inter-backup compatibility of the identified new backup; updates the backup data repository based on the inter-backup compatibility to obtain an updated backup data repository; and modifies a backup schedule using the updated backup data repository to meet a requirement of a protection policy of the protection policies.

Abstract: A system for providing backup services for limited-access user data includes persistent storage for storing a user data visualization enhanced user data backup and a manager. The manager identifies a backup generation event for limited-access user data based on a protection policy; in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtains fragmented user data from an application that gates access to the limited-access user data; obtains organizational metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; makes a determination that the fragmented user data is associated with a user data visualization; in response to making the determination, obtains user data visualization metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; and generates the user data enhanced user data backup using the organizational metadata, the user data visualization metadata, and the fragmented user data.

Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application, includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for user data based on a protection policy, in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, and generate a user data backup using the user data and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises calendar events of the calendar and portions of the user metadata associated with the calendar events.

Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application includes persistent storage that includes an archive storage and a backup storage. The system also includes a manager. The manager is programmed to generate data chunks using user data, generate backup object metadata associated with the data chunks; obtain previously generated backup object metadata associated with the user data using an archive value, make a first determination that at least one data chunk of the data chunks is to be archived using the backup object metadata and the previously generated backup object metadata, and, in response to the first determination: store the at least one data chunk in the archive storage as a portion of a user data backup, and store remaining data chunks of the data chunks in the backup storage as the remaining portion of the user data backup.

Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for user data associated with calendar groups generated by an application includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for the user data associated with a calendar group based on a protection policy, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application in response to identifying the backup generation event, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, generate calendar group information associated with the calendar using the user data and the user metadata, generate a user data backup using the user data, the calendar group information, and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises backup data and backup metadata.

Abstract: A system for providing backup services for limited-access user data includes persistent storage for storing a user data visualization enhanced user data backup and a manager. The manager identifies a backup generation event for limited-access user data based on a protection policy; in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtains fragmented user data from an application that gates access to the limited-access user data; obtains organizational metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; makes a determination that the fragmented user data is associated with a user data visualization; in response to making the determination, obtains user data visualization metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; and generates the user data enhanced user data backup using the organizational metadata, the user data visualization metadata, and the fragmented user data.

Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application includes persistent storage that includes an archive storage and a backup storage. The system also includes a manager. The manager is programmed to generate data chunks using user data, generate backup object metadata associated with the data chunks; obtain previously generated backup object metadata associated with the user data using an archive value, make a first determination that at least one data chunk of the data chunks is to be archived using the backup object metadata and the previously generated backup object metadata, and, in response to the first determination: store the at least one data chunk in the archive storage as a portion of a user data backup, and store remaining data chunks of the data chunks in the backup storage as the remaining portion of the user data backup.

Abstract: In some embodiments, described is a system (and method) for providing an efficient preview capability for emails backed up to a cloud-based object storage. The email preview may be provided as part of an interface allowing a user to select individual emails to restore from the object storage. The system may extract specialized preview information as part of a backup procedure. The preview information may include metadata and email content. For example, the preview information may include various email details such as sender, receiver, subject line, time sent/received, filenames of any attachments, etc. The preview information may also include email content such as particular sentences from the email body containing keywords. The system may also store extracted preview information in a specialized manner such that the preview information may be retrieved without having to access the actual backup data.

Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for user data generated by an application, includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for user data based on a protection policy, in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, and generate a user data backup using the user data and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises calendar events of the calendar and portions of the user metadata associated with the calendar events.

Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for user data associated with calendar groups generated by an application includes persistent storage for storing user data backups and a manager. The manager is programmed to identify a backup generation event for the user data associated with a calendar group based on a protection policy, obtain user data associated with the backup generation event from the application in response to identifying the backup generation event, select a calendar of calendars included in the user data, obtain user metadata associated with the calendar, generate calendar group information associated with the calendar using the user data and the user metadata, generate a user data backup using the user data, the calendar group information, and the user metadata, in which the user data backup comprises backup data and backup metadata.

Abstract: A manager for providing services to clients includes persistent storage and an orchestration manager. The persistent storage includes protection policies. The orchestration manager obtains a backup from a client of the clients based on a protection policy of the protection policies; makes a determination that an application catalog associated with the client is not stored in backup storages; in response to making the determination: obtains the application catalog from the client; stores the application catalog in the backup storages; and stores the obtained backup in the backup storages.

Abstract: A backup manager for providing backup services includes storage and a backup orchestrator. The storage stores manager associations. The backup orchestrator obtains a request to provide the backup services for a deployment; in response to the request: identifies types of managers of the deployment; makes a determination, based on the types of the managers of the deployment, that the managers of the deployment require a hybrid backup using the manager associations; and schedules a hybrid backup for the deployment based on the determination.

Abstract: Described is a system (and method) for cross application granular restore of email attachments backed up to a cloud-based object storage. More particularly, the system may allow various non-email applications to directly restore an email attachment of a backed-up email without requiring restoration of the email itself. The attachment may be a file, item (e.g., contact, event, message, etc.), or another type of attachment such as a link to a file or an item. To provide such a capability, the system may decouple the attachment from an email when performing a backup to an object storage. The system may also store specialized metadata that may be leveraged when performing an efficient restore of the attachment.

Abstract: A backup storage for managing backups of clients includes persistent storage and a backup analyzer. The persistent storage includes the backups, protection policies, and an early deletion schedule. The backup analyzer obtains a request to analyze a protection policy of the protection policies; in response to obtaining the request: obtains backup data information associated with the protection policy; makes a determination, based on the backup data information and the protection policy, that a portion of the backups associated with the protection policies overprotect a client of the clients associated with the protection policy; and modifies the early deletion schedule based on the determination to obtain a modified early deletion schedule.

Abstract: A method for performing a backup operation includes obtaining, by a backup agent, a backup request, and in response to the backup request: obtaining a complete application listing, wherein the complete application listing specifies a plurality of applications associated with the backup request, comparing the complete application listing to a cloud-based application listing, wherein the cloud-based application listing specifies a portion of the plurality of applications, making a first determination that the complete application listing specifies more than the portion of the plurality of applications, and in response to the first determination, initiating a hybrid workflow, wherein the hybrid workflow specifies backing up each of the plurality of applications.

Abstract: A system for providing backup services for limited-access user data includes persistent storage for storing fragmented user data and a manager. The manager identifies a backup generation event for the limited-access user data based on a protection policy; in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtains the fragmented user data from an application that gates access to the limited-access user data; identifies, based on the fragmented user data, organizational metadata for generating a user data backup; obtains the identified organizational metadata from the application; and generates the user data backup using the organizational metadata and the fragmented user data.

Abstract: A system for providing backup services for limited-access user data includes persistent storage and a manager. The manager identifies a backup generation event for the limited-access user data based on a protection policy; in response to identifying the backup generation event, performs, using an application that gates access to the limited-access user data, a change analysis of the limited-access user data to identify a portion of the limited-access user data that is potentially in a backed-up state; obtains, using the application, metadata associated with the portion indicative of whether sub-portions of the portion are in the backed-up state; identify, using the metadata, at least one of the sub-portions that is not in the backed-up state; and generates the user data backup using the at least one of the sub-portions.

Abstract: A system for providing backup services for limited-access user data includes persistent storage for storing a user data visualization enhanced user data backup and a manager. The manager identifies a backup generation event for limited-access user data based on a protection policy; in response to identifying the backup generation event, obtains fragmented user data from an application that gates access to the limited-access user data; obtains organizational metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; makes a determination that the fragmented user data is associated with a user data visualization; in response to making the determination, obtains user data visualization metadata associated with the fragmented user data from the application; and generates the user data enhanced user data backup using the organizational metadata, the user data visualization metadata, and the fragmented user data.