1. A method comprising: receiving, from a requester, a request to restore data stored in a storage subsystem, wherein the data stored in the storage subsystem includes deduplicated data; in response to the request, reading at least a portion of a recipe that refers to chunks in the deduplicated data; based on the recipe portion, retrieving a container having plural chunks; identifying, from the recipe portion, which of the plural chunks of the container to save, wherein some of the chunks identified do not, at a time of the identifying, have to be presently communicated to the requester for a restore operation specified by the request; and storing the identified chunks in a memory area from which chunks are read as the restore operation proceeds.