US Patent 11669413 Object metadata maintenance pertinent to object restoration

A method and system for object metadata maintenance pertinent to object restoration. Concerning the realm of data protection, metadata, descriptive of data, may be considered as critical, if not more, than the data being protected itself. Metadata, amongst other purposes, may facilitate the rapid and/or efficient restoration of the data. Like data, metadata may also be susceptible to corruption due to various reasons. With corrupted metadata, restoration of the data may prove challenging. Accordingly, the disclosed method and system propose a framework through which metadata, if corrupted partially or wholly, may be repaired or rebuilt, respectively, using the data itself as references.