Patent ID: 7640280
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A data shadowing system, connected to a monitored computer system, for the automatic backup storage into the data shadowing system of data that is written in the memory of the monitored computer system and the selective retrieval of this data from the data shadowing system for restoration to said memory of said monitored computer system, said data shadowing system comprising: data shadow copy module, external to and exclusively connected to a monitored computer system, for storing a shadow copy of the data which is written in the memory of the monitored computer system; and customer data file manager, resident in said monitored computer system, for autonomously transmitting customer data files, which comprise non-NTFS files resident on said monitored computer system, to said data shadow copy module, comprising: mapping database for storing said file tree information in a database in said monitored computer system.