Patent ID: 8285671

Claim:
A system for performing data storage operations on at least one information store, the system comprising: a processor; means for performing a first storage operation, wherein performing the first storage operation includes copying at least a first portion of the information store to one or more storage devices and generating first metadata that describes at least the copied first portion stored on the one or more storage devices, wherein the first metadata has a first format; means for performing a second storage operation, different from the first storage operation, wherein performing the second storage operation includes copying at least a second portion of the information store to one or more storage devices and generating second metadata that describes at least the copied second portion stored on the one or more storage devices, wherein the second metadata has a second format, and wherein the second format of metadata is different from the first format of metadata; means for converting metadata, associated with storage operations from multiple information stores into a normalized format; wherein the means for converting converts the first metadata having the first format and the second metadata having the second format into the normalized metadata format; and, wherein the means for performing the first and second storage operations include means for coordinating actions to perform at least one of: fully copying data in the at least one information store, performing snapshots of data in the at least one information store, performing serverless copy of data in the at least one information store, archiving data in the at least one information store, migrating data in the at least one information store, and recovering data in the at least one information store.