Patent ID: 8140604

Claim:
A method in a computing device for allocating media items of a media pool, the media items for archiving data by father job and son jobs, a father job having a father cycle and son jobs of a father job having a son cycle that is within the father cycle, the method comprising: receiving a request to allocate a media item for a job; when a job collocation intent has been specified, allocating for each task of the job the same media item; when a sons collocation intent has been specified, allocating for each task of each son job of the same father job the same media item; and when a father/sons collocation intent has been specified, allocating for each task of a father job and each task of the son jobs of that father job the same media item; wherein when a collocation intent is specified and the job is a replacement job replacing an original job that failed to complete, allocating the same media item as was allocated to the tasks of the original job that was replaced.