Patent ID: 8285680

Claim:
A system, comprising: a processor; a computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, which when executed by the processor causes the processor to: receive a request to restore an object; search for a tombstone associated with the object, wherein if the object tombstone is found, reanimate the object from the object tombstone, wherein if the object tombstone is not found or upon receiving a request to restore from backup: output a representation of available backup files; receive a selection of at least one of the available backup files; restore at least one of the selected backup files into a temporary location; mount at least one of the restored backup files as a server; output a representation of available objects from the server; receive a selection of at least one of the available objects to be restored from the server; and copy the at least one selected object from the server into an Active Directory.