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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
May. 06, 2005
Vishal Kathuria, Woodinville, WA (US);
Martin J. Sleeman, Redmond, WA (US);
Robin Dhananjay Dhamankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Yunxin Wu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shaoyu Zhou, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lev Novik, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tomas Talius, Sammamish, WA (US);
Vishal Kathuria, Woodinville, WA (US);
Martin J. Sleeman, Redmond, WA (US);
Robin Dhananjay Dhamankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla, Sammamish, WA (US);
Yunxin Wu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shaoyu Zhou, Issaquah, WA (US);
Lev Novik, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tomas Talius, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The subject invention relates to systems and/or methods that perform an authoritative and/or a non-authoritative restore of items in a data store. Backups are provided that include data associated with items and metadata related to the items that can include a history of operations and previous synchronizations to enable replications to converge after restoration. The operations that can be performed on the items include, for example, create, delete, update, move, etc. The items in the backups can be restored along with the metadata, which can be utilized to enable synchronization partners to converge based on a desired type of restoration.