Smart file level restore with rp4vm

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform data restoration operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving a particular point in time (PiT) and a name of a file to be restored that corresponds to the particular PiT;
• recreating a file system inode structure corresponding to the particular PiT based on an inode event stream stored in a journal at a backup site;
• determining one or more disk locations associated with the file to be restored corresponding to the particular PiT based on the file system inode structure corresponding to the particular PiT;
• constructing a temporary file with data corresponding to a current time read from the one or more disk locations in a storage system of the backup site;
• and
• obtaining the file to be restored, comprising rolling back data of the temporary file from the current time to the particular PiT based on a data stream stored in the journal at the backup site.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform data restoration operations, the operations including:
• receiving a particular point in time (PiT) and a name of a file to be restored that corresponds to the particular PiT;
• recreating a file system inode structure corresponding to the particular PiT based on an inode event stream stored in a journal at a backup site;
• determining one or more disk locations associated with the file to be restored corresponding to the particular PiT based on the file system inode structure corresponding to the particular PiT;
• constructing a temporary file with data corresponding to a current time read from the one or more disk locations in a storage system of the backup site;
• and
• obtaining the file to be restored, comprising rolling back data of the temporary file from the current time to the particular PiT based on a data stream stored in the journal at the backup site.