Patent ID: 7873806

Claim:
A method of creating a quick recovery volume from a primary volume of data stored in a storage management system, wherein the storage management system includes a primary volume storing data, the method comprising: performing a snapshot operation, wherein performing the snapshot operation includes: quiescing the primary volume of data; creating a first snapshot of the primary volume of data; after the first snapshot is taken, dequiescing the primary volume of data; and indexing the first snapshot by associating respective information relating to individual files within the primary volume of data with the first snapshot; and performing a copy operation, wherein the copy operation is performed after the primary volume is dequiesced and includes: selecting the first snapshot as a source of data to copy to a quick recovery volume, wherein the quick recovery volume includes information about an application that created the data of the primary volume; logically addressing the data to be copied to the quick recovery volume; and, performing a block-level copy of the logically addressed data of the selected first snapshot to the quick recovery volume.