SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARCHIVING OBJECTS IN AN INFORMATION STORE

• US 20090164532A1
• Filed: 10/16/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: CommVault Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: May, Andreas, Prahlad, Anand, Wang, Zhao, Iyer, Tinku, Demeno, Randy
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,627 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4523 using lightweight directory access protocol [LDAP]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/922 Communications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99955 Archiving or backup

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 subject 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.

Claims

1. A computerized method for archiving data, the method comprising:

identifying, in a first information store, a first data item satisfying a retention criterion;

copying the first data item from the first information store 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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