Patent ID: 9176679
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for creating a backup of data by a computer system being operatively coupled to a main memory and to one or more non-volatile storage media, wherein the creation of the backup comprises: assigning a first memory space in the main memory to the data and loading the data into the first memory space; allocating a second memory space in the main memory for acting as container of one or more images of the data in the first memory space; automatically creating the one or more images of the data in the first memory space; and automatically storing the created one or more images in the second memory space and storing a respective copy of at least one of the one or more images in the one or more non-volatile storage media, the storing in the second memory space and in the storing in the one or more non-volatile storage media being executed in accordance with one or more predefined backup-rules, wherein the data is a database management program, and wherein an application program having been loaded into a first memory space, the one or more stored images having been loaded into the first memory space, or the one or more image copies having been loaded into the first memory space, comprise at least one element being selected from: one or more indices of the database management program; at least one read optimized store of the database management program; or at least one write optimized store of the database management program.