Recovery of data associated with a locked snapshot via volume cloning functionality

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by one or more processing resources of a storage system, cause the storage system to:

• receive a request to recover data from a locked snapshot, containing a point-in-time image of a data protection volume, to a recovery volume, wherein the data protection volume includes one or more locked files;
• create the recovery volume without making a copy of the one or more locked files by cloning the data protection volume;
• and
• facilitate usage of the recovery volume in read-write mode by causing data protection information associated with respective locked files of the one or more locked files to be cleared or removed as part of a background process.

A storage system comprising:

• one or more processing resources;
• and
• instructions that when executed by the one or more processing resources cause the storage system to:
• receive a request to recover data from a locked snapshot, containing a point-in-time image of a data protection volume, to a recovery volume, wherein the data protection volume includes one or more locked files;
• create the recovery volume without making a copy of the one or more locked files by cloning the data protection volume;
• and
• facilitate usage of the recovery volume in read-write mode by causing data protection information associated with respective locked files of the one or more locked files to be cleared or removed as part of a background process.