Patent ID: 9430333
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for recovering application specific data corresponding to an application, the method comprising: an act of determining that an application-specific data container is to be recovered from a snapshot, the application-specific data container comprising data that corresponds to a particular application, the snapshot comprising data from an operational volume comprising data in addition to data corresponding to the application-specific data container; in response to the act of determining, initiating recovery of a prior state of content of the application-specific data container from the snapshot by beginning to copy a prior version of the content from the snapshot to the application-specific data container in the operational volume while not recovering the data in addition to the data corresponding to the application-specific data container, such that only the prior state of content of the application-specific data container is recovered from the snapshot; while the prior version of the content of the application-specific data container is being copied from the snapshot to the application-specific data container, permitting the particular application to perform read and write operations on the application-specific data container.