DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120131295A1
• Filed: 11/18/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakajima, Satoru
• Granted Patent: US 8,627,027 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/162
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0038 System on Chip

Abstract

When an accessible state of an external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not storing in the external memory unit, a data processing apparatus cancels the accessible state of the external memory unit if the external memory unit is not set as a backup destination, and does not cancel the accessible state of the external memory unit if the external memory unit is set as the backup destination.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus configured to back up data in an external memory unit, comprising:

an access control unit configured to set an accessible state of the external memory unit;

a setting unit configured to set the external memory unit as a backup destination; and

a backup unit configured to backup data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination,

wherein the access control unit is configured to not cancel the accessible state of the external memory unit set as the backup destination even when the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not being stored in the external memory unit.

2. A data processing apparatus configured to back up data in an external memory unit, comprising:

an access control unit configured to set an accessible state of the external memory unit;

a setting unit configured to set the external memory unit as a backup destination; and

a backup unit configured to backup data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination,

wherein the access control unit is configured to cancel the accessible state of the external memory unit if the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled, data is not being stored in the external memory unit and the external memory unit is not set as the backup destination, and to not cancel the accessible state of the external memory unit if the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled, data is not being stored in the external memory unit and the external memory unit is set as the backup destination.

3. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a determination unit configured to determine whether an amount of capacity of the external memory unit is equal to or larger than a threshold value,

wherein the setting unit is configured to set the external memory unit as the backup destination when the capacity of the external memory unit is equal to or larger than the threshold value.

4. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a second setting unit configured to set, when the data is being backed up in the external memory unit set as the backup destination and the amount of capacity of the external memory unit becomes insufficient to store remaining data, a flag to enable cancellation of the accessible state of the external memory unit,

wherein the access control unit is configured, even when the external memory unit is set as the backup destination, to cancel the accessible state of the external memory unit if the flag has been set.

5. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the access control unit is configured to set the accessible state by executing mounting of the external memory unit, and wherein the access control unit is configured to cancel the accessible state by executing unmounting of the external memory unit.

6. The data processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the external memory unit is a USB storage device.

7. A data processing apparatus configured to back up data in an external memory unit, comprising:

an access control unit configured to set an accessible state of the external memory unit;

a setting unit configured to set the external memory unit as a backup destination;

a backup unit configured to backup data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination; and

a notification unit configured to notify removal of the external memory unit set as the backup destination and removal of an external memory unit not set as a backup destination by different methods.

8. An access control method executed by a data processing apparatus that is configured to back up data in an external memory unit, comprising:

setting an accessible state of the external memory unit;

setting the external memory unit as a backup destination;

backing up data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination; and

wherein when the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not being stored in the external memory unit, in the setting of the accessible state of the external memory unit, the accessible state of the external memory unit is canceled if the external memory unit is not set as the backup destination,

wherein even when the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not being stored in the external memory unit, in the setting of the accessible state of the external memory unit, the accessible state of the external memory unit is not canceled if the external memory unit is set as the backup destination.

9. An access control method executed by a data processing apparatus that is configured to back up data in an external memory unit, comprising:

setting an accessible state of the external memory unit;

setting the external memory unit as a backup destination;

backing up data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination; and

notifying removal of the external memory unit set as the backup destination and removal of an external memory unit not set as a backup destination by different methods.

10. A non-transitory storage medium for storing a program readable by a computer, the program causing the computer to:

set an accessible state of an external memory unit;

set the external memory unit as a backup destination;

back up data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination;

wherein when the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not being stored in the external memory unit, in the setting of the accessible state of the external memory unit, the accessible state of the external memory unit is canceled if the external memory unit is not set as the backup destination, and

wherein even when the accessible state of the external memory unit is instructed to be canceled and data is not being stored in the external memory unit, the computer does not cancel the accessible state of the external memory unit if the external memory unit is set as the backup destination.

11. A non-transitory storage medium for storing a program readable by a computer, the program causing the computer to:

set an accessible state of an external memory unit;

set the external memory unit as a backup destination;

back up data in the external memory unit set in the accessible state and as the backup destination; and

notify removal of the external memory unit set as the backup destination and removal of the external memory unit not set as a backup destination by different methods.