Live browsing of granular mailbox data
AssigneeCommvault Systems, Inc.
InventorsYan LIU, Jun H. Ahn, Manas Bhikchand Mutha, Priya Sundaresan
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing and/or facilitating live browsing of granular mail or mailbox data, such as data stored within Exchange mailboxes, are described. For example, the systems and methods may provide mechanisms for browsing and/or restoring granular data (e.g., email data) from an Exchange database backup copy (or other secondary copy), without having to restore the entire database from the backup copy.
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A method for facilitating browsing of an electronic mailbox via data stored in a backup volume associated with the electronic mailbox, the method comprising:
- mining one or more backup volumes associated with a mailbox for data blocks associated with individual messages within the mailbox;
- generating a block-level backup copy of the mailbox comprising the data blocks mined from the one or more backup volumes associated with the mailbox,
- wherein the block-level backup copy is created as an NFS (Non-NDMP File Server) share;
- mounting the block-level backup copy as the NFS share to an email browsing service;
- and
- presenting, via the email browsing service, one or more messages of the mailbox to a graphical user interface at a client device,
- wherein the email browsing service presents the one or more messages of the mailbox using an index,
- wherein the index comprises information that maps the one or more messages to the data blocks mined from the one or more backup volumes associated with the mailbox.
A computer-implemented system, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- at least one data storage device coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions for performing a process for browsing a mailbox, wherein the process comprises:
- mining one or more backup volumes associated with the mailbox for data blocks associated with individual messages within the mailbox;
- generating, a block-level backup copy of the mailbox comprising the data blocks mined from the one or more backup volumes associated with the mailbox,
- wherein the block-level backup copy is created as an NFS (Non-NDMP File Server) share;
- mounting the block-level backup copy as the NFS share to an email browsing service;
- and
- presenting, via the email browsing service, one or more messages of the mailbox via a graphical user interface at a client device,
- wherein the email browsing service presents the one or more messages of the mailbox using an index,
- wherein the index comprises information that maps the one or more messages to the data blocks mined from the one or more backup volumes associated with the mailbox.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.