Patent ID: 7624134

Claim:
A method performed by an Internet service, comprising: providing by the Internet service programs to execute in a computer including: a remote drive connection program executed in the computer to enable access from the computer to remote storage provided by the Internet service on a remote server over the Internet, wherein the remote drive connection program obtains a user password and user account information with the Internet service to use to establish a connection with the remote server and the remote storage for the user account; and a backup program executed on the computer to perform: indication of files on a source drive in a backup set in the computer to store on the remote storage that have a real-time backup status; storing the backup set on the remote storage; detecting a modification to a file on the source drive; determining from the indication whether the file being modified is indicated as having the real-time backup status; and transferring the modification to the file to the backup set at the remote storage in response to determining that the file being modified is indicated as having the real time status.