Restoration of content of a volume

Abstract

Example embodiments relates to method and systems to restore content of a volume at a given point in time. A computing device to restore content of a volume at a given point in time comprises a physical processor and a machine-readable storage medium comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor that cause the computing device to command a storage array to select a surviving snapshot that was created at a nearest point in time to the given point in time among a set of surviving read-only snapshots of content of the volume stored in the storage array, command the storage array to create an editable surviving snapshot of the selected surviving snapshot, perform a delta function associated with a deduplication system, the deduplication system comprising a set of backup objects for the set of surviving read-only snapshots and a set of backup objects for a set of non-surviving read-only snapshots of content of the volume and restore content of the volume at the given point in time by commanding the storage array to modify the editable surviving snapshot based on an output of the delta function. Each of the backup objects within the deduplication system comprises a manifest, the manifest comprising a list of chunk signatures that represents chunks of data. The delta function is performed between a manifest of a backup object of the selected surviving snapshot and a manifest of a backup object of a snapshot created at the given point in time.