Patent ID: 7124322

Claim:
A method for disaster recovery for a plurality of workstations on a computer network comprising: grouping workstations of the computer network having a common base system into a first group of workstations; determining, based on one or more network policies, a first workstation from the first group of workstations for imaging the common base system; creating a first image of base system data from the determined first workstation, for restoring the common base system of the workstations of the first group; storing the first image on computer media; determining a first set of workstations in the first group of workstations having a common application program; determining, based on the one or more network policies, a second workstation from the first set of workstations for imaging the common application program; creating a second image of application data from the determined second workstation, for restoring the common application program of the workstations of the first set; storing the second image on computer media; creating a third image of personalized data relative to a respective workstation on the computer network; and storing the third image on computer media.