Patent ID: 9483363
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information management system configured to perform data protection operations in the event of lost connectivity with a storage manager, the system comprising: at least one client computing device residing in an information management cell and comprising one or more applications installed thereon configured to generate primary data for storage in one or more primary storage devices in the information management system, the client computing device further configured to execute first secondary copy software installed thereon to process primary data generated by the one or more applications as part of a first secondary copy operation in which the primary data is, at the direction of a first storage manager that is geographically remote from an information management cell in which the at least one client computing system resides, copied to one or more secondary storage devices for storage as a first secondary copy in a first secondary copy file format; and a second storage manager installed on a computing device within the information management cell and configured to: wherein one or more computing devices in the information management cell are configured to copy the restored data to the one or more secondary storage devices for storage as a third secondary copy in the first secondary copy file format.