Patent ID: 8412678

Claim:
A method for providing business continuity services after a disaster or other loss of data comprising: (a) accessing data in an operating system environment; (b) executing a cloning process in which the data is cloned; (c) replicating the data to at least one target server; (d) mounting a read-only snapshot of the replicated data to the target server; (e) converting the replicated data to a disk file type that can be recovered; (f) storing the read-only snapshot and converted data on a storage system; (g) receiving notification of disaster or other loss of information at the operating system environment; (h) executing scripts to create a snapshot copy of a data volumes on the storage system; (i) importing and virtualizing cloned server configuration files; (j) attaching the recoverable disk files and snapshot copy of a data volumes to create recovered servers; (k) configuring network settings on the recovered servers to mirror a pre-disaster environment; and (l) providing secure access to the recovered servers via a Wide Area Network (WAN) cloud.