Patent ID: 7133910

Claim:
A method for automatically recovering the data of a cell in a Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) system comprising at least a cell and wherein each cell includes at least a server associated with a database, a DCE administrator workstation associated with DCE administrator software for managing the cell and a plurality of users, said users being included in a plurality of organizations; said method comprising the following steps, which are automatically performed by said DCE administrator software after initialization by said administrator workstation: in response to a request for a backup or duplicate operation, listing all of said plurality of organizations by extracting from the cell data defining each of said organizations, and generating for each of said organizations, DCE commands necessary for recovering all data associated with the users included in said cell including data to manage said users, including the step of for each of said plurality of organizations, generating DCE commands necessary to create the organization and to list all users belonging to the organization; and building an executable program comprising said generated DCE commands and data associated with each user included in the cell, said executable program being used to restore or duplicate said cell.