| US 7,574,459 B2 | ||
| Method and system for verifying data in a data protection system | ||
| Vijay Sen, Hyderabad (India); Amit Singla, Hyderabad (India); Arasu Shankher Jeyaprakash, Hyderabad (India); Brian T Berkowitz, Seattle, Wash. (US); Catharine van Ingen, Berkeley, Calif. (US); Karandeep Singh Anand, New Delhi (India); Sunil Pai, Portland, Oreg. (US); Sushil Baid, Hyderabad (India); Vinay S Badami, Hyderabad (India); and Nikhil Chandhok, Seattle, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 17, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/131,027. | ||
| Application 11/131027 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/937651, filed on Sep. 09, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0053182 A1, Mar. 09, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—204 [707/202; 711/161; 711/162] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A method for verifying a data copy, comprising:
determining an intent that provides semantic criteria defined by the user for selecting a data copy to be verified, the data
copy corresponding to a namespace element that logically represents a naming scheme of the data as stored on a physical medium;
identifying a data copy having a namespace element with semantic criteria that satisfies the intent for selecting the data
copy to be verified;
verifying the identified data copy by determining whether the data as stored on the physical medium has degraded from when
the data copy was previously verified; and
if the data copy fails to be verified, creating a copy of the data copy from one or more alternate physical mediums;
wherein data updates associated with the namespace element are saved and implemented once the creation of the data copy from
the one or more alternate physical mediums is complete, the namespace element being associated with a protected group and
saved searches for detecting changes in a production environment.
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