Patent ID: 7657509

Claim:
A computer-implemented system to manage backup and recovery meta data, comprising: a computerized console portal system comprising at least one computing device configured to receive the backup and recovery meta data over a network from at least one agent and at least one computerized backup management system, and to maintain a database including the backup and recovery meta data; and wherein the computerized console portal system being configured to maintain the database includes the computerized console portal system being configured to cause the received backup and recovery meta data to be stored into the database according to a database schema having a file table, a backup table, and a link table, the file table, the backup table and the link table all configured to store at least a portion of the received backup and recovery meta data, wherein said file table has entries for each file the meta data relates to, said backup table has entries for each backup event the meta data relates to, and said link table links said file table and said backup table, wherein said link table includes a plurality of entries, each entry uniquely corresponding to a particular file backed up during a particular backup event, wherein each entry of said link table includes a link to an entry in said file table for the particular file to which that entry of the link table corresponds, and a link to the entry in said backup table for the backup event during which the particular file was backed up; wherein the computerized console portal system being configured to maintain said database to further include the computerized console portal system being configured to maintain, in the database, at least one of backup statistics, restore statistics, policy data, and instructions to one or more of said at least one agent, and wherein the computerized console portal system includes a database server hardware computing device and a portal server hardware computing device.