Patent ID: 11860739
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
identifying, by a computing device, one or more file recipe objects that existed at a time at which at least a portion of a namespace is to be restored, wherein the portion of the namespace comprises one or more directories and the time is included in a received snapshot access request;
determining, by the computing device, from the file recipe objects one or more directory names for one or more of the directories that existed at the time, wherein the file recipe objects each comprise metadata that describes one of the directories and comprises one of the directory names;
identifying, by the computing device, content of the one or more of the directories based on the determined directory names; and
returning, by the computing device, one or more files, included in the identified content and existing within the namespace at the time, in response to the snapshot access request in order to facilitate restoration of the portion of the namespace.