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Secondary storage editor

  • US 10,168,924 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2016
  • Issued: 01/01/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for editing indexing information associated with backup data in an information management system, the method comprising:

  • receiving a textual pattern by a secondary storage editor implemented on a computing device comprising one or more hardware processors;

    searching for the textual pattern in an index, by a media agent component of the information management system,wherein the index comprises information created during one or more backup operations,wherein a given backup operation created backup data stored in secondary storage, andwherein the media agent is implemented on a computing device comprising one or more hardware processors;

    identifying, by the media agent, one or more files in the backup data that are represented in the index and match the textual pattern;

    deleting from the index, by the media agent, entries corresponding to the one or more identified files without causing the one or more files to be physically deleted from the backup data in the secondary storage,thereby logically deleting the one or more files from the secondary storage; and

    after the logically deleting and when criteria for physical deletion of the one or more files from the secondary storage are met, causing by the media agent the one or more files to be physically deleted from the backup data in the secondary storage.

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