Patent ID: 11899534
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory comprising code stored therein that, when executed, performs a method comprising:
receiving a selection of a backup of a file system, wherein the backup is stored on a backup system connected to a data storage system;
creating, in accordance with said selection of the backup, a remote copy of the backup, wherein the remote copy is stored on the backup system;
generating a proxy file system for the remote copy on the backup system, wherein the proxy file system is mapped by the data storage system to the remote copy on the backup system; and
providing a host with direct access to the remote copy using the proxy file system, wherein the remote copy is identified in the backup system using a backup identifier (ID), and wherein the method further includes:

creating a control path object that is a local representation of the remote copy within the data storage system;
mapping the control path object to the remote copy using the backup ID;
creating a proxy file system object representing the proxy file system in the data storage system; and
mapping the proxy file system object to the control path object.