A method, computer program product, and data management appliance for scheduling
mountable point-in-time views of a storage volume is disclosed. A device external
to the data processing system requests indentification information regarding available
virtual views made of at least one primary storage device. The identification information
is received from the device. The virtual views are incorporated into native filesystem
associated with the data processing system. The identification information includes
an alphanumeric name, creation date and time information, filesystem type, and
access privileges.