Abstract: A computer-implemented method for restoring application data may include (1) identifying a virtual disk image used by a virtual machine to represent a volume of data within the virtual machine used for storage by an application within the virtual machine, (2) identifying a request to back up the virtual disk image, and, in response to the request, (3) identifying, within the volume of data, at least one file including application data used by the application, (4) generating application metadata and a catalog associating a logical view of the application data with the file, the logical view being based on application logic of the application, (5) backing up the virtual disk image, and (6) associating the catalog with the backed up virtual disk image. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: Providing authentication of users accessing an NFS shared file system. A shared secret is used as a component of the mount point used to access the NFS share. Upon receiving a request to access to the data in the NFS share, the process creates at least one cryptographic value and then creates a path to the mount point which incorporates the cryptographic value. The process then creates the mount point at the path, e.g., /PATH:k1, where k1 is the cryptographic value. Creation of the mount point is preferably performed using NFS protocol semantics, without requiring any changes to the NFS protocol semantics. A second cryptographic value, k2, may be used for unmounting the mount point.