Patent ID: 7653714

Claim:
A recording medium readable by a computer and storing a system managing program for assisting in optimizing a system configuration by enabling said computer to function as: application information collecting means for acquiring management information representing backup and recovery of data from an application function which is realized when a server of a network system executes an application program, and registering the acquired management information in a system management table; system information collecting means for collecting management information on data management by a file system from an operating system of said server, and registering the collected management information in said system management table; and information analyzing means for referring to said system management table and determining whether the adequacy of said backup schedule by comparing a backup time of backup data that was actually used in recovery and a backup time of latest backup data that can be used for recovery with each other; wherein said information analyzing means judges that said backup schedule is adequate if the backup time of the backup data that was actually used in recovery is earlier than the backup time of the latest backup data that can be used for recovery.