Patent ID: 8949395
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing event driven recovery management comprising: continually copying one or more data blocks that are generated from a computing device, the one or more data blocks being generated through modifying existing data block copies, and the one or more data blocks comprising historical views of data associated with the computing device at particular points in time; marking the copies of the one or more data blocks with at least one event marker, an event marker of the at least one event marker solely identifying an event occurring between the generation and storage of the copies of the one or more data blocks, the event being a request for one historical view of the historical views, and the event marker being at least one of: text data, number data and time data uniquely identifying the request for the one historical view; and providing event driven recovery through allowing access to the copies of the one or more data blocks based on the at least one event marker, the allowing access to the copies of the one or more data blocks comprising providing, in accordance with a subsequent request for the one historical view, access to the one historical view based on locating event markers uniquely indicating the historical views and determining a match between information related to the subsequent request and the event marker related to the one historical view located from a list of the event markers instead of performing a direct match between the information related to the subsequent request and the historical views.