Patent ID: 7707455

Claim:
A method for self-service recovery of application data, comprising: receiving a request for recovery of a Line of Business (LOB) application from a user; authenticating the user; translating, via a computer, the received request as a function of a recovery scope table into a plurality of recoverable objects corresponding to the LOB application in response to the receipt of the request, wherein the plurality of recoverable objects are deemed accessible to the authenticated user; initiating execution of a recovery job on a backup and restore application for the plurality of recoverable objects, said recovery job attempting to restore the plurality of recoverable objects; receiving recovery job progress data for the plurality of recoverable objects from the recovery job of the backup and restore application, said receiving further comprising consuming events generated by the recovery job via system monitoring tools; and sending application recovery job progress data to the user, said application recovery job progress data translated from the received recovery job progress data, said translating comprising mapping progress of recovery of each recoverable object to overall progress of the recovery of the LOB application.