ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,865, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Backup and restore of files with multiple hard links" was invented by Looi Chow Lee (Mountain View, Calif.), Ziqi Liu (Campbell, Calif.) and Guilherme Menezes (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for backing up and restoring files that have multiple hard links using master file references and index node-based mappings are described. In some cases, file fetching and restoration may be performed by a storage appliance using master file references in which a master file is identified for each multi-link file that is backed-up on t...