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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jing Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Ming Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Boda Lei, Chengdu, CN;
Yun Wang, Chengdu, CN;
Liang Zheng, ChengDu, CN;
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing file level restore (FLR) service for restoring one or more files stored in a plurality of file systems in a backup of a first virtual machine is provided. The method creates a FLR session for a user, including: creating a virtual disk file in a second virtual machine providing the FLR service, the virtual disk file including an empty file system being mounted as a root folder of a virtual appliance in the second virtual machine; creating a respective folder for each of the plurality of file systems under the root folder; mounting each of the plurality of file systems to the respective folder; and mounting the root folder to a folder of the second virtual machine. The method restores the one or more files by the user through accessing the folder of the second virtual machine in the FLR session.