US Patent 11397649 Generating standby cloud versions of a virtual machine

Contents of a virtual machine of a primary storage are received at a first point in time. A full snapshot of the virtual machine is stored on a secondary storage using the received contents of the virtual machine. One or more cloud storage volumes of the virtual machine are caused to be created. Contents of the full snapshot for storage on the one or more cloud storage volumes are provided from the secondary storage. Changed data of the virtual machine of the primary storage is received at a second point in time. An incremental snapshot of the virtual machine is stored using the received changed data. The one or more cloud storage volumes are updated using the incremental snapshot of the virtual machine. An image of at least one of the cloud storage volumes is caused to be created for standby deployment of another instance of the virtual machine.