US 11,809,287 B2
On-the-fly PiT selection in cloud disaster recovery
Tomer Kushnir, Ramat Gan (IL); Jehuda Shemer, Kfar Saba (IL); Jawad Said, Kfar Yasif (IL); and Kfir Wolfson, Beer Sheva (IL)
Assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/064,087.
Application 18/064,087 is a continuation of application No. 16/880,080, filed on May 21, 2020, granted, now 11,531,598.
Prior Publication US 2023/0116105 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1469 (2013.01) [G06F 11/1484 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
converting an image of a selected point in time (PiT) to a converted virtual machine;
attaching a hydrated operating system (OS) disk to the converted virtual machine;
hydrating a data disk from the PiT as a volume;
attaching the volume to the converted virtual machine;
operating the converted virtual machine as a restored virtual machine;
running an application on the restored virtual machine; and
moving the volume to a second PiT when the volume attached to the restored virtual machine is not validated without requiring a second conversion of a second image of the second PiT to a second converted virtual machine.