Patent ID: 8615490

Claim:
A method for restoring data from backup storage media performed by an information handling system utilizing at least one computing device, the method comprising the steps of: reading first and second partial files from first and second backup storage media, respectively, irrespective of a sequence in which the first and second backup storage media were originally written relative to one another and without replicating a native environment in which the first and second backup storage media were written, and wherein the first and second backup storage media have respective media types that differ from one another; wherein a second partial file of the first and second partial files forms a second portion of a complete file; and combining the first and second partial files to extract and form the complete file, without dependence on re-reading the first and second backup storage media; writing the complete file to a target storage; and performing an operation in response to the complete file that is stored in the target storage; and wherein the complete file is a first complete file and further comprising the step of: reading a second complete file from the first backup storage medium; and extracting the second complete file, without dependence on re-reading the backup storage media; reading a third complete file from the second backup storage medium; wherein the reading comprises: reading a third partial file from the first backup storage medium, reading the first partial file from the first backup storage medium, and reading the second partial file from the second backup storage medium, irrespective of the sequence in which the first and second backup storage media were originally written relative to one another; wherein the third partial file forms a portion of a second complete file; and extracting the portion of the second complete file from the third partial file, without dependence on re-reading the backup storage media and extracting the third complete file, without dependence on re-reading the backup storage media.