Patent ID: 6157931
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for storing an archival copy of selected files from a first storage media on a second storage media, comprising:a product database having a list of product directories indicating at least a first set of non-user generated files in each of said product directories in said list;a backup routine which excludes at least one non-user generated file in the first set of files in each of said product directories in said list from backup operations such that no archival copy of said at least one non-user generated files in the first set of files in each of said product directories in said list is stored on the second storage media, wherein user generated files can be distinguished from non-user generated files; andan exclusion routine having a set of predetermined exclusion rules for each of said product directories in said list adapted to determine which of said non-user generated files in each of said product directories in said list in said first storage media are to be excluded.