Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Hui Yang

Shelesh Chopra

Navneet Upadhyay

Amith Ramachandran

Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci

Kenneth William Owens

Trichy Krishnamurthi Premkumar

A method and system for live-mounting database backups. Specifically, disclosed method and system entail recovering database data&#x2014;in entirety or at any granular level&#x2014;without needing to provision storage resources for point-in-time database copies (i.e., backup database data), or without needing to wait for large amounts of data, representative of the point-in-time database copies, to traverse a network from backup storage to a target device. Substantively, through live-mounting, the physical point-in-time database data, as well as the associated structural metadata, may be retained on backup storage while a pointer-based snapshot, mapping to the physical point-in-time database data and structural metadata, may be generated thereon. Thereafter, a file system&#x2014;mapping to the pointer-based snapshot on the backup storage&#x2014;may be mounted on the target device, which exposes an interface through which the backup database data may be accessed and/or manipulated using a distributed file system protocol.

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