Patent ID: 8131928
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: accessing a current disk of a backup, the backup comprising a plurality of disks, each disk divided into two or more stripes to yield a plurality of stripes for the plurality of disks, the plurality of stripes configured in a stripe sequence; identifying a plurality of desired stripes of the plurality of stripes, the desired stripes storing content comprising data to be restored from a striped volume; determining if one or more desired stripes of the plurality of desired stripes are on the current disk; reading the content of a first subset of the one or more desired stripes, the first subset comprising the desired stripes on the current disk; recording a second subset of the one or more desired stripes on an unread list, the second subset comprising the desired stripes that are not on the current disk; and reading remaining content from one or more remaining disks according to the unread list.