Patent ID: 7523348

Claim:
A method for informing a user of the state of an archive, the archive being maintained by a data protection system that receives a protection intent from a user to archive data of a production location to a storage location and that implements the archiving of the data, comprising: under control of the data protection system, receiving from a user a protection intent to archive data of the production location to the storage location; after receiving the protection intent, creating an archive job to implement archiving of the data of the production location to the storage location, the archive job having multiple tasks for performing different activities of archiving of the data; and executing the created archive job to perform the tasks to archive data of the production location to the storage location; monitoring archive activities of the data protection system; determining if there are any potential problems with the archive resulting from the archive job archiving data of the production location to the storage location, the potential problems including failure of a task of the archive job; if it is determined that there are no potential problems with the archive, providing a user an informational report regarding the state of the archive; if it is determined that there are potential problems with the archive, determining the severity of the potential problem; classifying the potential problem based on the severity of the problem; and providing the user with a report corresponding to the classification of the potential problem so that the user can determine whether the data protector is correctly implementing the protection intent of the user to archive data of the production location.