Patent attributes
A request to access one or more files associated with a particular pint in time that are archived at a cloud storage is received. A file system metadata tree data structure based on metadata associated with the one or more requested files that is obtained from the cloud storage is partially restored at a storage system. The partially restored file system metadata tree data structure includes one or more stub nodes associated with one or more non-requested files. Access to the one or more requested files is provided using the partially restored file system metadata tree data structure. Metadata associated with the one or more non-requested files is prefetch from the cloud storage. A portion of the file system metadata tree data structure corresponding to the one or more non-requested files is restored in part by replacing the one or more stub nodes associated with the one or more non-requested files with metadata corresponding to the one or more non-requested files.
