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

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for managing snapshots comprising machine executable code which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:
identify 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;
determine 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;
identify content of the one or more of the directories based on the determined directory names, wherein the content comprises one or more files existing within the namespace at the time; and
return the one or more files in response to the snapshot access request in order to facilitate restoration of the portion of the namespace.