Patent ID: 8189484

Claim:
An electronic data analysis, storage, and retrieval system comprising: a verification device for verifying integrity of a system's operational health; a operation monitor for continuously monitoring a system's operation; a data collector for obtaining relevant system data; a storage device for archiving system data; a media verification device for verifying integrity and authenticity of a storage media; a data analyzer for analyzing and comparing archived system information; a quantification device for measuring a value of a given piece of backup data and meta-data and attributing the value to said given piece of backup data and meta-data, wherein the meta-data indicates at least one of time it take to do each backup, the size of each backup, a number of files back up, and a number of directories backed up for a backup process; a notification device for notifying abnormalities of the backup process based on a comparison between the meta-data and a historical average; and a warning device for altering or reporting results of the quantification device to an operator.