US Patent 11507473 System and method for efficient backup generation

A backup manager for providing backup services includes persistent storage and a backup orchestrator. The persistent storage includes protection policies. The backup orchestrator identifies a last backup generation time for a client in response to a protection policy of the protection policies triggering a backup generation for the client; obtains system metadata for the client; identifies a portion of client data that has been modified since the last backup generation time using the system metadata; generates an incremental backup based on the identified portion of the client data; and stores the incremental backup in backup storage.