Patent ID: 8392375

Claim:
A system comprising: a network-accessible data store that archives data for a client of an associated data storage service according to a model for perpetual sustainability and accessibility of the data, the data store including or operatively coupled to at least a memory and a processor that implement a set of extensible or exchangeable components described by the model, the set comprising: an efficient redundancy component that conforms to the model for perpetual sustainability and accessibility of the data; an efficient availability component that conforms to the model for perpetual sustainability and accessibility of the data; a data integrity component that conforms to the model for perpetual sustainability and accessibility of the data; a data logistics component that conforms to the model for perpetual sustainability and accessibility of the data, the data logistics component configured to: monitor one or more risk factors to update a disaster risk profile; and facilitate moving or copying of the data to a remote section of the data store or to a remote data store based on the disaster risk profile, the data logistics component configured to facilitate moving the data if the disaster risk profile indicates a security compromise to the data in the data store, and the data logistics component configured to facilitate copying the data if the disaster risk profile indicates a risk of a natural disaster; and an efficient storage component that conforms to the model for perpetual sustainability and accessibility of the data.