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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2011
Chris W. Hallum, Redmond, WA (US);
William B. Lees, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sachin Goel, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chris W. Hallum, Redmond, WA (US);
William B. Lees, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sachin Goel, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to recovering locked data. In aspects, stakeholders of locked volume(s) are identified. Security data of the volume(s) that can be used to unlock the volume(s) is collected from one or more computing devices hosting the volume(s). The security data and stakeholder data is stored on a recovery store. If a stakeholder needs to unlock a volume, the stakeholder may communicate with a recovery manager, provide certain data, and receive data that may be used to unlock the volume. Auditing may be performed for attempts to obtain the unlocking data from the recovery store.