Patent attributes
A method and system for leveraging file-based backups to facilitate bare-metal recovery (BMR) and/or system-state recovery (SSR) operations. In leading to a BMR operation (which may include, but is not limited to, data protected under a SSR operation), logical groupings of data, each including multiple files and/or directories that span across one or more file-systems, may be written to backup media to comply with data backup, archiving, and/or disaster recovery strategies. Backing up said logical groupings of data relies on block-based backup technologies, which upon requiring a subset of a given logical grouping of data to be restored, makes the restoration process impossible to fulfill since determining which blocks of data belong to which files and/or directories are not tracked. Accordingly, the disclosed method and system propose an intelligent scheme through which file-based backup technology may be employed to enable BMR and/or SSR from any single BMR-compliant backup copy.
