Patent ID: 8566288

Claim:
A system comprising: a computer having a first storage device as a primary storage device for said personal computer; said computer running a routine that accesses files on a shared storage device, said shared storage device having operating files thereon, and also accesses a second storage device as a designated backup storage device and accesses a third storage device as a designated diverted files storage device; said computer operating to perform a backup to said second and third storage devices, by creating a first list of files to be copied to said third storage device as said diverted files storage device, a second list of files to be ignored during backup, and where said computer operates to check a name of said file to be transferred against said second list of files and if said file name appears on said second list of files, said file will not be transferred, and said computer operates to check the name of said file which is not ignored against said first list of files and if said file name appears on said first list of files said file will be transferred to said designated diverted files storage device, else said file will be transferred to said designated backup storage device, and where said first list of files also includes a list of operating files from said shared storage device, where said operating files are automatically stored on said designated backup storage device along with other files from said computer, where said designated backup storage device is partitioned and formatted prior to the transfer of any files such that it becomes a bootable storage device after said backup that includes files from said shared storage device.