Patent 9235606 was granted and assigned to EMC on January, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A set of objects associated with an incremental backup is determined where the set of objects includes one or more full backup objects associated with a full backup from which the incremental backup depends. A backup is performed using the set of objects, including by setting one or more timestamps associated with the one or more full backup objects to a time later than the full backup.