Patent ID: 7418464
Filing Date: 2008-08-26
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A data backup management method, comprising: receiving multiple user files from at least one client station coupled to a data storage subsystem; storing at least some of the multiple user files in a retrieval storage pool at a first location in the data storage subsystem; creating a managed file comprising an aggregation of at least some of the multiple user files; applying first predetermined criteria to a user file stored in the retrieval storage pool to designate the user file in the retrieval storage pool as one of a higher priority and a lower priority wherein said first predetermined criteria include the status of the user file as one of active and inactive wherein an active user file currently resides on said client station and is designated a higher priority user file, and an inactive user file once resided on a client station but had been subsequently at least one of modified and deleted on said client station, and is designated a lower priority user file; and deleting from said retrieval storage pool a user file designated as lower priority.