Patent ID: 9678836
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing data protection of storage units, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: providing a user interface that enables a user to configure data protection policies for storage units; selecting at least one storage unit for data protection; enabling the user to configure, through the user interface, a data protection policy to schedule a data backup of the storage unit; enabling the user to configure, through the same user interface, the same data protection policy to schedule a data transfer operation from the storage unit to an additional storage unit, visually depicting the additional storage unit in the same user interface as a separate replica of the storage unit upon configuring the data transfer operation; enabling the user to configure a snapshot on data of the storage unit using the replica as a source.