Patent ID: 9606994
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y10S

Claim:
1. A method for identifying data interactions performed within a computer network, the method comprising: identifying data interactions made by at least one application to data objects stored on one or more primary storage devices; obtaining with one or more processors comprising computer hardware, first metadata about the data objects from the one or more primary storage devices; updating with one or more processors comprising computer hardware, a first metabase with the first metadata; receiving a query comprising selection criteria associated with moving data from the one or more primary storage devices to one or more secondary storage devices; identifying with the first metabase, one or more of the data objects which meet the selection criteria without accessing the data objects stored on the primary storage device; copying with one or more processors comprising computer hardware the one or more of the data objects identified by the first metabase to the one or more secondary storage devices; and storing second metadata in a second metabase, the second metadata comprising information about the one or more data objects copied to the one or more secondary storage devices.