Patent ID: 7634497

Claim:
A storage management system operatively coupled to a storage system, the storage management system comprising: a plurality of processor modules, each processor module to intercept write commands directed to the storage system, generate backup data based upon data associated with the write commands, and generate metadata having timestamps for the backup data; and one or more indexing modules to create one or more indexing tables for the backup data based on the metadata, wherein the one or more indexing modules are located separate from the plurality of processor modules to allow separate scalability of the plurality of processor modules and the one or more indexing modules, wherein the one or more indexing modules are in communication with the plurality of processor modules and the storage system, wherein the one or more indexing modules further perform one or more functions associated with one or more functional modules selected from the group consisting of a blade configuration manager, a remap engine, a global database, a production restore, a timeline compression, an indexing database interface, a metadata space manager, and vendor multipathing software.