Patent ID: 8055630

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed in a data processing system, causes the data processing system to: receive a request to project a recovery time for a data asset that uses a repository; determine whether there are a plurality of existing recovery times for other data assets and other repositories that have characteristics similar to the data asset and the repository of the request; responsive to an existence of the plurality of existing recovery times, project the recovery time for the data asset using the plurality of existing recovery times and one or more recovery rate input factors, wherein the one or more recovery rate input factors are recovery time characteristics of one or more test recovery configurations or the other repositories associated with the plurality of existing recovery times; and calculate an enhanced recovery health index associated with the data asset of the request using a recovery health index function that determines the enhanced recovery health index by dividing the projected recovery time with a requested recovery time of the data asset.