Patent ID: 9697085
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of operating a volume access system, the method comprising: processing at least a virtual disk file associated with a virtual machine to generate a file system view of the virtual disk file comprising a plurality of items within the virtual disk file; processing at least a condensed backup file to generate a file system view of the condensed backup file comprising a plurality of items within the condensed backup file; providing the file system view of the condensed backup file over a network interface as a hierarchical data volume for a client device; receiving over the network interface a file operation command generated on the client device for a target item of the hierarchical data volume; and in response to the file operation command, performing the file operation command on a first item of the plurality of items within the condensed backup file corresponding to the target item, and the file system view of the virtual disk file.