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Secondary storage editor

  • US 9,632,713 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2015
  • Issued: 04/25/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of editing secondary storage data associated with a backup, the method comprising:

  • under control of a hardware processor comprising digital logic circuitry,performing a backup of a primary data store, said performing comprising storing backup data in a non-human readable format on a secondary storage device and creating an index of the backup data, the index comprising original metadata associated with the backup data;

    electronically generating instructions for outputting a graphical user interface for presentation to a user, the graphical user interface comprising functionality configured to enable the user to modify the original metadata associated with the backup data;

    receiving, from the graphical user interface, a user modification of the original metadata;

    generating a modified index that reflects the user modification of the original metadata to create modified metadata, without modifying the backup data;

    maintaining the original metadata, which omits the user modification of the original metadata, in addition to maintaining the modified index, which includes the modified metadata;

    in response to a user request to browse the backup data, outputting a custom view of the backup data that reflects the user modification of the original metadata; and

    in response to a user request to restore the backup data, restoring the backup data to create restored data, said restoring comprising;

    retrieving the backup data from the secondary storage device;

    identifying changes in the modified metadata compared to the original metadata;

    applying the user modification of the original metadata to the backup data to create the restored data based at least in part on the identified changes in the modified metadata as compared to the original metadata.

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