Patent ID: 6981177

Claim:
A method for disaster recovery, comprising: starting a replication task operable to detect an incremental change in a second database; accessing a taskfile to identify at least one of a first file to be monitored for incremental changes, a first folder to be monitored for incremental changes, a first registry to be monitored for incremental changes, a second file to be excluded from monitoring, a second folder to be excluded from monitoring, and a second registry to be excluded from monitoring; communicating at least a portion of the information from the second database for storage in a backup system as backup information after the replication task has started; communicating a detected incremental change from the replication task for storage in a first database, the incremental change representing a change to at least a portion of information in the second database; receiving at least one of backup information and the incremental change; and restoring the second database using at least one of the backup information and the incremental change.