Data backup system, data backup program, data restoration processing system, and data restoration processing program
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorMio Tanida
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Abstract
A data backup system includes an administration device built in an image forming apparatus for administering a state of usage of the image forming apparatus every administrative unit of a previously registered user and/or organization, and a backup device for acquiring registration data of the administrative unit and the data of the activities as backup data.
Claims18
A data backup system, comprising:
- an administration device built in an image forming apparatus, wherein the administration device administers a state of usage of the image forming apparatus every administrative unit of registered users and/or organizations;
- and
- a backup device for acquiring registration data of the administrative unit and data of the state of usage as backup data.
A data backup program for making a computer execute processing for acquiring data with respect to a system equipped with an administrative device built in an image forming apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- requesting a request signal to the image forming apparatus;
- acquiring registration data of an administrative unit and data of a state of usage as backup data, replied to the request signal;
- and
- storing the backup data in a memory.
A data backup system, comprising:
- an image forming apparatus;
- an administration device, wherein the administration device administers a state of usage of the image forming apparatus every administrative unit of registered users and/or organizations;
- a backup device for acquiring registration data of the administrative unit and data of the state of usage as backup data;
- and
- a restoration device for restoring the system by writing the backup data acquired with the backup device in the system after acquisition of the backup data,
- wherein the restoration device is provided with an acquisition portion for acquiring data of a newest state of usage, and a comparator for comparing the data of the newest state of usage with the backup data acquired with the backup device, and
- wherein, in cases where the data of the newest state of usage differs from the backup data, the data of the newest state of usage is written in the system.
A data restoration processing program for making a computer execute the steps of:
- acquiring registration data of administrative units of registered users and/or organizations and data of a state of usage of an image forming apparatus as backup data with respect to a system equipped with an administration device of an image forming apparatus, wherein the administration device administers the state of usage of the image forming apparatus every administrative unit of registered users and/or organizations;
- acquiring data of the newest state of usage at the time of restoring the system by writing the backup data therein;
- comparing acquired the data of the newest state of usage with backup data;
- and
- writing the data of the newest state of usage when the data of the newest state of usage is different from the backup data as a result of comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.