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Process, data processing device, service provision server, back-up server and program modules for backing-up data

  • US 6,704,849 B2
  • Filed: 03/09/2001
  • Issued: 03/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for backing-up data stored on storage means of a data processing device comprising:

  • determination of data in the storage means which are to be backed-up;

    establishment of a plurality of connections via a telecommunications network between the data processing device and each of a plurality of backup servers; and

    transmission of respective data streams, formed from the data to be backed-up, from the data processing device to different ones of the plurality of back-up servers;

    wherein the data streams are formed to be redundant only in part, such that the data to be backed up cannot be regenerated by only one of the data streams, but can be regenerated by combining fewer than all of the data streams.

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