Patent ID: 8527721

Claim:
A method, comprising: generating a recovery snapshot of backed up data at a predetermined interval; creating a virtual view of the recovery snapshot around a recovery point using an algorithm tied to an original data, a change log data, and a consistency data related to an event associated with the recovery point and storing the virtual view instead of a data view of the recovery snapshot to reduce a time consumption and a capacity consumption associated therewith, the virtual view being created following at least one of a pause and a suspension of operation of a client device configured to originate a request associated with the backed up data, and the recovery point capable of being a system crash, a login failure, a configuration change and an automatic backup operation of data; and providing, through the recovery snapshot, an ability to position forward and backward from the recovery point when a delayed roll back algorithm is applied based on the virtual view, thereby providing an ability to roll to a data state occurring earlier in time compared to the recovery point and to a data state occurring later in time compared to the recovery point.