Patent ID: 8438331

Claim:
A recording system including a recording device having a media housing unit capable of housing a plurality of first recording media and a recording unit configured to perform a recording operation on the first recording media, and an information processing apparatus, the recording system comprising: a recording control unit disposed outside of the information processing apparatus, the recording control unit being configured to manage data files on each of the first recording media and on a second recording medium under a root directory of a volume constituted by the first recording media housed in the media housing unit and the second recording medium to which a data file to be recorded on the first recording media is registered, the data files being managed using a directory structure including a directory representing each of the first recording media housed in the media housing unit and a directory, serving as an entry folder, representing the second recording medium, execute, in response to a predetermined data file and an information file for detailing category information of the data files being written in the entry folder, processing for selecting a predetermined first recording medium from the plurality of the first recording media housed in the media housing unit based on the category information detailed by the information file, and execute processing for controlling the recording device so that the data file written in the entry folder is recorded on the selected first recording medium; and an information processing control unit disposed in the information processing apparatus, the information processing control unit being configured to execute, in response to the predetermined data file and the category information of the data files being specified, processing for controlling a writing operation so that the specified data file and the information file for detailing the specified category information of the data files are written in the entry folder.