A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for efficiently restoring information is disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises receiving a self-contained datastream and analyzing the self-contained datastream for file headers, corresponding file metadata and corresponding file blocks. Data is then reconstructed based on analyzing the self-contained datastream into reconstructed data, and the reconstructed data is then stored in a storage device. File headers are used to indicate the start of a new file in the self contained datastream. File blocks contain the information necessary to reconstruct the files in the datastream. File metadata describes how to reconstruct the file, such as which file blocks are required for the file, and the location of each file block in the self contained datastream, among others. In an embodiment, the reconstructed data may contain deduped data.