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1. A machine implemented method, comprising:
providing an inventory listing of a plurality of application objects of an application from among a plurality of applications on a display device by a management device that interfaces with a plurality of application plugins executed by one or more computing devices interfacing with the plurality of applications for managing backup, restore and cloning operations involving objects that are stored on behalf of the plurality of applications by a storage system; generating a clone dataset object for an application object selected from among the plurality of application objects of the application, where the clone dataset object format is the same regardless of any application object type maintained by the plurality of applications; selecting a clone lifecycle option for the clone dataset object for managing lifecycle of a clone of a backup of the selected application object, where clone lifecycle involves taking the clone of the backup of the selected application object, deleting the clone and refreshing the clone; associating the clone dataset object with a policy object identifying clone lifecycle preferences, where the policy object format for the plurality of applications and associated application objects is the same; and executing operations associated with the clone lifecycle based on the clone dataset and the policy object, where the management device manages clone lifecycle operations interfacing with the application plugin. |
