Patent ID: 8977672
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for scheduling secondary copy operations associated with a plurality of portable client computing devices residing in a storage network including both the plurality of portable client computing devices and a plurality of stationary client computing devices, the method comprising: storing primary data in at least a plurality of portable computing devices and in a plurality of stationary client computing devices, the primary data generated by one or more applications executing in the plurality of portable computing devices and the plurality of stationary client computing devices; with a storage manager component comprising computer hardware, providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to that allows a user to configure data storage policies associated with performing secondary copy operations that copy the primary data from both the plurality of portable computing devices and the plurality of stationary client computing devices to one or more secondary storage devices, the storage manager component and the one or more secondary storage devices remotely located from both the plurality of portable computing devices and the plurality of stationary client computing devices, wherein at least one of the data storage policies is associated with the plurality of portable client computing devices, the GUI allowing a user to specify: electronically transmitting from the storage manager component a data structure comprising the at least one of the data storage polices to a scheduling agent executing on each of the plurality of portable client computing devices; for each of the plurality of portable client computing devices: directing with the storage manager, the data agent executing on one of the plurality of portable client computing devices to initiate the secondary copy operation; after the maximum interval has expired, initiating the performance of the secondary copy with the storage manager component regardless of whether the prerequisite network condition or prerequisite power management condition are met; and for the plurality of stationary client computing devices, performing a secondary copy operation based on the storage policies that copies the primary data from the plurality of stationary client computing devices to one or more secondary storage devices with the storage manager component.