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

Claim 12:
13. A computing device comprising:
a memory containing a machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for managing snapshots; and
a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
identify a file recipe object that existed at a time at which a namespace is to be restored, wherein the namespace comprises a directory and the time is included in a received snapshot access request;
determine from the file recipe object a directory name for the directory, wherein the file recipe object comprises metadata that describes the directory and comprises the directory name;
identify content of the directory based on the directory name; and
return one or more files, included in the identified content and existing within the namespace at the time, in response to the snapshot access request.