Patent ID: 7877360

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of identifying a recovery point in a continuous data protection (CDP) log, said method comprising: detecting, by a computing device, corrupted data in said CDP log; identifying, by said computing device, a nature of corruption of said corrupted data; mapping, by said computing device, said nature of corruption to applications to identify components that may have caused said corrupted data, wherein said components comprise logical data stores used by said applications determined from configuration files that configure and deploy said applications, and said logical data stores are mapped to physical storage volumes hosted by storage devices; finding, by said computing device, a time instance of uncorrupted data in said components; and outputting said uncorrupted data using said CDP log and point-in-time images to construct uncorrupted data, where said finding of said time instance includes dividing, by said computing device, said CDP log into a first group, a middle log event, and a second group, wherein said first group comprises log entries of said CDP log that are older than said middle log event, and wherein said second group comprises log entries of said CDP log that are newer than said middle log event.