AUTOMATIC REAL-TIME FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20130282665A1
• Filed: 06/24/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DataNet, LLC
• Original Assignee: Integrity PC Innovations, Inc.
• Inventors: Roach, Warren, Williams, Steven R., Reiber, Troy J., Burdine, Steven C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,218,348 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/667
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1461 Backup scheduling policy
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/86 Mapping to a database

Abstract

A method for archiving files includes determining when a change in an operating file is imminent, capturing the operating file immediately before the change in the operating file occurs, if the operating file has not already been captured; and capturing the operating file immediately after the change in the operating file has occurred.

Claims

1. In a computing device, a method for archiving files comprising:

detecting an instruction from a resident program to perform an operation on an operating file; and

capturing the operating file temporally proximate to the operation being performed on the operating file, responsive to the detection of the instruction.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein capturing the operating file includes creating an archive file and storing the archive file in a storage location.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the archive file includes a copy of the operating file.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the archive file includes portions of the operating file.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the archive file includes pointers directed to one or more storage locations, wherein each of the one or more second storage locations contains at least a portion of the operating file.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein capturing the file includes saving the archive file prior to the operation being performed on the operating file.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein capturing the file includes saving the archive file subsequent to detecting the instruction to perform the operation.

8. The method of claim 2 wherein capturing the file includes saving the archive file subsequent to the operation being performed on the operating file.

9. The method of claim 2 wherein the storage location includes a buffer.

10. The method of claim 2 wherein the first storage location includes a storage device.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the storage device includes at least one of a group comprising a magnetic storage medium, an optical storage medium, and a solid-state storage device.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the storage location includes a directory disposed on said storage device.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether the operating file is intended to be captured prior to said capturing step.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether the operating file has previously been captured prior to capturing the file.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the operation causes a change in the operating file.

16. An article of manufacture comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code for performing the method of claim 1.

17. A data transmission signal having computer readable program code for performing the method of claim 1.

18. An article of manufacture comprising a processor configured to perform the method of claim 1.

19. In a computing device, a method for moving files from a first storage location to a second storage location comprising:

searching a first storage location for files responsive to the occurrence of a first event;

moving the files from the first storage location to the second storage location responsive to a second event.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the first storage location includes a buffer.

21-51. -51. (canceled)