International Business Machines Corporation

Lu Nugyen

James Patrick Smith

Christopher Zaremba

An apparatus, method and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus includes a strategy module that determines restore information, writes the restore information into a restore information file, and writes the restore information file to a master volume containing target data; a snapshot module that creates a snapshot backup of the master volume; and a restoration module that restores the target data and restore information file, and restores application consistency of the target data. The method includes determining restore information, writing restore information to a file, writing the file to a volume containing data, backing up data by a snapshot backup of the volume, restoring data and the file, and restoring application consistency of the data. The computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium that stores code to perform determining a backup strategy, backing up data, and restoring data.

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