Mechanism for exposing shadow copies in a networked environment

Details Mechanism for exposing shadow copies in a networked environment Mechanism for exposing shadow copies in a networked environment

2003-06-13

2010-06-01

Rones, Charles (Department: 2164)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

File or database maintenance

Database backup

C707S654000, C707S823000, C707S829000, C707S831000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07730033

ABSTRACT:
Described is a mechanism for exposing a volume shadow copy of a shared volume over a network to a remote client. A shared volume is accessed at a client computing system having a root. A volume shadow copy (or “snapshot”) of the volume is identified as a child resource of the shared volume. The child resource representing the snapshot may be hidden from ordinary view by default. To access the snapshot, a user may access the child resource as if it were an ordinary file or directory on the shared volume. Advantageously, the user need not mount a new volume representing the snapshot volume, but rather the user may directly access the snapshot.

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