Patent ID: 11892914
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
memory comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, perform a method, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a restoration policy manager, a restoration request for a plurality of application containers to be restored in a production host; and
in response to the restoration request:
obtaining, by a backup server, container information associated with the plurality of application containers, wherein the container information comprises information for an application container that was at one point in time in the production host, a second application container that is scheduled to be hosted by the production host, and a third application container that has never been hosted by the production host;
assigning a restoration type to each application container in the plurality of application containers using the container information, wherein the plurality of application containers comprises the application container, the second application container, and the third application container;
updating a restoration type list based on the assigning; and
initiating a restoration of the plurality of application containers using the restoration type list.