Patent 9152686 was granted and assigned to Zetta Inc on October, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for backing up a client data set on a computer by generating a manifest of the client data set and storing the manifest on a remote server along with a server data set corresponding to the client data set; taking a snapshot of the server manifest and data set; and comparing the manifest to the remote server data set and synchronizing the client dataset if a difference is detected.