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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a data selector circuit that receives an instruction of a selection range from a serviceman via the operation unit and the display unit, and automatically selects data to be backed up in the external storage device in the selection range out of the pieces of data, a backup circuit that backs up the data selected by the data selector circuit out of the pieces of data in the external storage device being connected, and sends the data unselected by the data selector circuit to the database server for backup, and a restoring circuit that restores the data backed up in the external storage device in a first storage after replacement for the maintenance, then receives the data backed up in the database server, and restores the data in the first storage after replacement for the maintenance without the serviceman.