Patent ID: 7167425

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive output data by a succession of program units; a compressing unit configured to receive the output data received by the receiving unit and compress the data to generate compressed data; a breakpoint information generator configured to generate breakpoint information indicative of a per-program breakpoint of the compressed data based on specified information indicating a per-program breakpoint of the output data received by the receiving unit; a first recording unit for receiving the compressed data and recording the data to a predetermined first recording medium; a first management information generator configured to generate first management information for managing the operation of read/write from/to the first recording medium in such a manner that the data recorded in the first recording unit are managed per program based on the breakpoint information; a second management information generator configured to generate, based on the first management information acquired from the first recording unit, second management information to manage the compressed data per program in a second recording medium; and a sending unit configured to send the compressed data in the first recording medium and the second management information to the second recording medium.