US Patent 10977274 Unified replication and recovery

In one example, a system and method for replication and recovery of protected resources may include one or more vendor neutral components that identify a corresponding vendor specific replication and/or recovery tool. The vendor specific tool is then executre to obtain replication data related to the protected logical entity. The replication data is formatted in a vendor neutral format, and forwarded to a target site over a data transport mechanism. The target site can then reformat the replication data into the appropriate vendor specific formats required on the target site (which may not be the same vendor or vendor formats on the source site), and proceed to recover and/or replicate the protected resources.