SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE BACKUP IN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT

A production host for hosting virtual machines includes a persistent storage and a production agent. The persistent storage stores virtual machine data of the virtual machines. The production agent obtains a dynamic backup generation rule for the virtual machines; for a predetermined period of time after obtaining the dynamic backup generate rule: generates first backups of the virtual machines based on the dynamic backup generate rule; and identifies a change rate of the virtual machine data; after the predetermined period of time, obtain a prediction-based backup generation rule that is based on the change rate of the virtual machine data over the predetermined period of time; and generates second backups of the virtual machines based on the prediction-based backup generation rule.