System and method for archiving objects in an information store
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1. A computer-implemented method for restoring archived data, the method comprising:
- selecting an indicator, or receiving selection of the indicator, wherein the indictor is associated with a data item,wherein the data item is stored in a secondary storage device,wherein the indicator is stored in a primary storage device, wherein the primary and secondary storage devices are coupled via a network,wherein the indicator includes an identifying path to the data item, andwherein the indicator includes a representative portion of the data item;
based on the selected indicator, accessing the data item from the secondary storage device via the identifying path;
copying the data item to the primary storage device; and
removing, from the primary storage device, the indicator associated with the copied data item;
wherein selecting the indicator includes selecting an electronic mail message having a header field of the data item, wherein the header field includes at least two of a sender field, a recipient field, a subject field, a time field, and a date field.
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Abstract
The invention relates generally to archiving data items in an information store. More particularly, the invention provides a computerized method for identifying, in a first information store, a first data item satisfying retention criteria; copying the first data item to a second information store; creating, in the first information store, a second data item containing a subset of the data of the first data item selected based on the data type of the first data item; and replacing the first data item, in the first information store, with the second data item.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for restoring archived data, the method comprising:
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selecting an indicator, or receiving selection of the indicator, wherein the indictor is associated with a data item, wherein the data item is stored in a secondary storage device, wherein the indicator is stored in a primary storage device, wherein the primary and secondary storage devices are coupled via a network, wherein the indicator includes an identifying path to the data item, and wherein the indicator includes a representative portion of the data item; based on the selected indicator, accessing the data item from the secondary storage device via the identifying path; copying the data item to the primary storage device; and removing, from the primary storage device, the indicator associated with the copied data item; wherein selecting the indicator includes selecting an electronic mail message having a header field of the data item, wherein the header field includes at least two of a sender field, a recipient field, a subject field, a time field, and a date field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer-implemented method for moving data items between servers, the method comprising:
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extracting data items stored in a secondary storage device associated with a first server; transferring the extracted data items into a primary storage device associated with the first server, wherein indicators associated with the data items stored in the secondary storage device are stored in the primary storage device, wherein the indicators include identifying paths to the data items and representative portions of the data items, and wherein the primary and secondary storage devices are coupled via a network; deleting the indicators from the primary storage device associated with the first server; and moving the data items from the primary storage device associated with the first server to a primary storage device associated with a second server. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computer-implementable method for retrieving a portion of an original electronic mail message, wherein the portion is archived in secondary storage, the method comprising:
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displaying a graphical user interface of an electronic mail message stub stored in a primary information storage device, wherein the stub has replaced the original electronic mail message in the primary storage device, and, wherein the graphical user interface comprises; header fields of the original electronic mail message, including at least two of sender, recipient, subject, time, and date of the original electronic mail message; a message indicating that the portion of the original electronic mail message has been archived; and
,a link to the portion of the original electronic mail message that is archived, wherein the link comprises an identifying path to the portion in a secondary storage device; and
,restoring the portion of the original electronic mail message from the secondary storage device to the primary storage device in response to a user selecting the link, wherein the primary storage device and secondary storage device are coupled via a network. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-implementable method for managing electronic mail data, the method comprising:
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identifying a stub, in a first information storage device, that has replaced an archived electronic mail object that has been moved to a secondary storage device, wherein the identified stub comprises an identifying path to the archived electronic mail object in the secondary storage device; and
,wherein the archived electronic mail object is an archived electronic mail message, an archived body of an electronic mail message, or an archived attachment to an electronic mail message, wherein the first information storage device and the secondary storage device are coupled via a network; retrieving a copy of the archived electronic mail object from the secondary storage device by providing the identifying path to a media agent; storing the retrieved copy of the archived electronic mail object in the first information store; deleting the identified stub from the first information store; and
,moving the stored copy of the archived electronic mail object from the first information storage device to a second information storage device.
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