Cascading recovery framework for software-as-a-service data

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications may host customers' information in a distributed environment that is not directly accessible to the customers. SaaS applications may store data in the form of relational tables, meaning that data is organized in tables that have hierarchical relationships. SaaS tables may include permissive relationships to other tables (e.g., a row in one table may point to data in another table). Restoration of a SaaS computing object (e.g., one or more SaaS tables) may involve restoration of other computing objects in both dependent and permissive relationships with the SaaS computing object. Cascading metadata logic may be stored in association with a particular computing object that may indicate, for each relationship, whether to perform a restore operation and a type of cascading restore to perform when the particular computing object is to be restored to a particular computing environment.