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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sunil Yadav, Bangalore, IN;
Shelesh Chopra, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for leveraging backup process metadata for data recovery optimization. Concerning file-system data protection, recovery operations tend to be exhaustive processes that often require extensive storage space and network bandwidth, among other, resources. Further, many existing file-system recovery solutions tend to implement whole or full data transfers (i.e., entailing the migration of all file-system data for a sought point-in-time) irrespective of which data may already be maintained on select recovery destinations, thereby unnecessarily allocating and expending said limited resources. In addressing this inefficiency, embodiments disclosed herein use metadata, produced during and/or following backup processes protecting file-system data, to identify and restore portions, rather than the entirety, of file-system data sought to be recovered from backup storage onto any recovery destination(s). Through said mechanism enabling partial file-system data recovery, usage of resources pertinent to the recovery process is optimized.