CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 11/1461 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 11/1466 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A method of selectively restoring a computer system to an operational state, comprising:
creating a backup image of the computer system comprising a set of data blocks;
creating and starting a virtual machine based on the backup image;
identifying a subset of the data blocks accessed from the backup image during startup of the virtual machine; and
in response to determining that the computer system should be restored:
restoring the subset of the data blocks such that the computer system is operational during startup; and
restoring a remaining set of the data blocks from the backup image after the startup of the computer system.
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