Patent ID: 8843450
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for restoring data associated with a collaborative software application, comprising: creating a virtual file system exposing backup data of a collaborative software application stored in a backup data storage; receiving via an interface associated with the virtual file system a selection of a portion of the backup data to be restored to the collaborative software application; causing the selected portion of the backup data to be transferred through a network on demand to be granularly restored to the collaborative software application without transferring and restoring one or more unselected portions of the backup data, wherein transferred through a network on demand comprises transferring after the receiving of the selection of the portion of the backup data to be restored to the collaborative software application; and in response to a write operation by the collaborative software application, writing data associated with the write operation to the virtual file system and write-protecting the backup data stored in the backup data storage.