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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Stefan Bender, Woerrstadt, DE;
Mauro Cruciani, Mainz, DE;
Michael Loehr, Buettelborn, DE;
Christian Mueller, Dichtelbach, DE;
Sabine U. Steinhauer, Ingelheim, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for accessing filesystem objects on a backup server storing block level backups, includes: receiving a request to access a filesystem object stored in the block level backups, the request including a pattern of characters identifying the filesystem object in a global history table mapping a history of filesystem objects to the block level backups; identifying, based on the pattern of characters, an object identifier in the global history table corresponding to the filesystem object; identifying, based on the object identifier, a set of one or more block level backups of the computing system having a copy of the filesystem object; selecting a block level backup from the set of one or more block level backups; mounting the selected block level backup to access a backed-up file system of the computing system; and retrieving, from the backed-up filesystem, the filesystem object.