Patent 11861392 was granted and assigned to Cohesity on January, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An instruction to generate a cloud instantiation of a secondary storage system is provided. One or more secondary storage clusters are virtually rebuilt in the cloud instantiation of the secondary storage system. A new cloud instance of a user virtual machine is deployed based on at least a portion of data stored in the one or more rebuilt secondary storage clusters of the cloud instantiation of the secondary storage system. A version of at least the portion of the data of the one or more rebuilt secondary storage clusters is provided to a cloud deployment server.