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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2005
Paul Cram, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Stephen Andrew Breidbach, Atascadero, CA (US);
Robert James Somerville, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Paul Cram, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Stephen Andrew Breidbach, Atascadero, CA (US);
Robert James Somerville, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for secure restoration of data selected based on user-specified search criteria includes maintaining one or more backup versions of a plurality of storage objects and initiating the generation of a plurality of database entries, wherein each database entry corresponds to a backup version of a storage object and includes an encoding of a security descriptor associated with the storage object. The method may further include, in response to a backup version search request from a user, using contents of the search request and encodings of security descriptors stored in the plurality of database entries to identify one or more backup versions of a particular storage object that the user is authorized to access.