Scheduled creation of point-in-time views

摘要

A method, computer program product, and data management appliance for scheduling mountable point-in-time views of a storage volume is disclosed. A web-based administrative interface is provided for entering rules defining a scheduling policy under which point-in-time views are to be created and published among a network of computers. Publication of a single point-in-time view may be scheduled or a series of recurring point-in-time views may be scheduled. A naming scheme may be employed to create distinguishable recurring point-in-time views that are mounted as storage volumes or directories in a file system.