Patent ID: 7568080

Claim:
A method of creating a quick recovery volume of a primary volume of data in a storage management system, the storage management system including a storage manager, a media agent connected to the storage manager, and a primary volume connected to the media agent, the method comprising: performing a snapshot operation, wherein performing the snapshot operation includes: quiescing the primary volume of data; taking a first snapshot of the primary volume of data; after the first snapshot is taken, dequiescing the primary volume of data; and indexing the first snapshot by associating respective information relating to individual files within the primary volume of data with the first snapshot; and performing a copy operation, wherein the copy operation is performed after the primary volume is dequiesced and includes: selecting the first snapshot as a source of data to copy to a quick recovery volume, wherein the quick recovery volume includes information about an application that created the data of the primary volume; parsing the data to be copied to the quick recovery volume; logically addressing the data to be copied to the quick recovery volume, performing a block-level copy of the parsed and logically addressed data of the selected first snapshot to the quick recovery volume; and deleting the selected snapshot after the block-level copy is complete.