Patent ID: 11880286
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
identifying a point-in-time (PiT) to recover from a plurality of PiTs;
recovering the PiT as a converted virtual machine, wherein the converted virtual machines includes a data volume corresponding to a timestamp of the PiT;
starting a change block driver with an operating system, wherein the change block tracker is configured to track changes to the data volume;
operating the converted virtual machine as a restored virtual machine and running an application on the restored virtual machine, wherein the change block driver tracks changes to the data volume; and
returning the data volume to the timestamp using the changes tracked by the change block driver;
moving the data volume to a second PiT included in the plurality of PiTs without requiring a second conversion of a second representation of the virtual machine.