Patent ID: 8769311

Claim:
A method for recovery of an encrypted logical data object including one or more encrypted storage sections, said method comprising: recognizing, by a processor, a recovery status when opening the encrypted logical data object; initiating a recovery process in response to recognizing said recovery status; inspecting the encrypted logical data object to find one or more unmapped encrypted storage sections, wherein the one or more unmapped encrypted storage sections comprises at least one unmapped encrypted data chunk; decrypting the at least one unmapped encrypted data chunk to generate a decrypted data chunk; and preparing the decrypted data chunk for storage in the encrypted logical data object, wherein: preparing the decrypted data chunk comprises treating the decrypted data chunk similar to a newly received data chunk for storage in the encrypted logical data object, and treating the decrypted data chunk similar to a newly received data chunk comprises encrypting the data in the decrypted data chunk in an order the data was originally received to generate a newly encrypted data chunk.