Patent ID: 8667240

Claim:
A method for automatic backup of digital data, kept in a memory in a computer installation, to a remote backup system accessible by the computer installation via a data transmission network, the method comprising: extracting and analyzing operating information of the computer installation, said operating information including a date of manufacture or commissioning of the computer installation, a frequency with which the computer installation is started up, put on standby or shut down, and at least one of available power and memory, a nature and version of an operating system of the computer installation, a nature of applications installed and able to be executed by the computer installation, a nature and capacity of a connection of the computer installation to the data transmission network, and a general organization of directories and classification of files in the directories; determining settings of a backup application for backing up data to the backup system according to the result of the extracting and analyzing of the operation information, analyzing the digital data kept in the memory and classifying the analyzed digital data into a plurality of classes of differing priorities; and executing the backup application on at least a part of the digital data, according to the determined settings and classes of priorities.