Patent ID: 7549027

Claim:
A method for backup and recovery of data using an architecture that includes continuous backup capabilities combined with an information protection backup and recovery components including a backup server and backup media, the method comprising the computer-executed steps of: storing a snapshot of the data, according to a known time to discover a defect, used by a client application server in the backup media, the snapshot comprising a re-startable point in time recovery object; creating continuous virtual snapshots of the data from the client application server by storing, in a time synchronized manner, incremental writes to the data on the backup media in a continuous data journal log according to a known time to discover a defect; identifying recovery points in the journal log as selected ones of the continuous virtual snapshots of the data; and in response to a request to recover the data to a recovery point in time, applying the incremental writes in the continuous data journal log up to the recovery point associated with the recovery point in time to the snapshot for recovery of data from the client application server.