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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2007
Christopher Hercules Claudatos, San Jose, CA (US);
William Dale Andruss, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Steven R. Terwilliger, Foster City, CA (US);
Christopher Hercules Claudatos, San Jose, CA (US);
William Dale Andruss, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Steven R. Terwilliger, Foster City, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for restoring or transmitting files from a first location to a second location, comprising prioritizing the files, and restoring or transmitting the files in prioritized order. In one embodiment, the files may be prioritized according to file type, and may be subsorted by timestamp. In one embodiment, the files may be prioritized according to timestamp or timestamp range, and subsorted by file type. File types may be grouped such that all file types in a group have the same priority, and the group may be associated with an application or application suite. In one embodiment, the files may be prioritized according to predicted file usage.