Patent ID: 8489676

Claim:
A method for creating a shortcut for an archived item in a database, the method comprising: sending a request for a given item from a client computer to a web server, wherein the request comprises a location identifier for the given item; reading stored content data from a data location within the web server identified by said location identifier; determining from the stored content data that content data corresponding to the given item is not stored in the web server and is stored in an archive store; retrieving an archived copy of the content data corresponding to the given item from the archive store using archival identifiers stored in the data location identified by said location identifier; and sending the archived copy to the client computer in response to detecting the request is a retrieve request; in response to determining an item qualifies to be stored in the archive store: sending a copy of the content data corresponding to the item to the archive store for storage; storing in the web server archival information used for later requests to retrieve the copy of the content data from the archive store; and overwriting the content data with a value used to indicate the content data corresponding to the given item is not stored in the web server and is backed up in the archive store.