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Lightweight mounting of a secondary copy of file system data

  • US 9,026,498 B2
  • Filed: 03/07/2013
  • Issued: 05/05/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A networked data storage system comprising:

  • a user computing device configured to;

    transmit filtering criteria to a media agent that is in communication with secondary storage, the secondary storage maintaining a secondary copy of at least a portion of a file system;

    receive metadata corresponding to an abbreviated version of the secondary copy from the media agent, wherein the abbreviated version of the secondary copy comprises a listing of data objects in the secondary copy that are identified by the media agent as satisfying the filtering criteria;

    mount the abbreviated version of the secondary copy, wherein the mounted abbreviated version of the secondary copy is displayed within a view of a file system of the user computing device;

    receive an indication of a selection of a first data object in the listing of data objects, the selection made by a user via a graphical user interface that displays the mounted abbreviated version of the secondary copy;

    transmit a command to the media agent instructing the media agent to retrieve the selected first data object from the secondary storage; and

    receive the selected first data object from the media agent.

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