Patent ID: 7320060

Claim:
A backup designation method using a plurality of computers for designating a backup method to be used for backup of data from a source disk volume of a source storage system to a target disk volume of a target storage system, said computers and said source and target storage systems being interconnected to each other by a network, the method, being executed by a computer, comprising the steps of: reading first information related to the source disk volume and second information related to a backup method defining a backup operation previously stored on a storage device, the first information being related to the source disk volume includes a disk volume name and attribute information of the source disk volume, the second information being related to the backup method includes correspondence information between attribute information of the source disk volume and a backup method for the source disk volume, the attribute information including a use application and a use state of the source disk volume; receiving parameters for designating the target disk volume of a backup operation from a user terminal; determining a backup method based on the first information related to the source disk volume, the second information related to the backup method and the received parameters by comparing each of the attribute information included in the first and the second information related to the source disk volume and the parameters volume designated by the parameters; and sending, to another computer, a designation for executing a backup operation based on the determined backup method.