Dynamic promotion of user data components to system writer components

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and memory configured to store one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of:
• communicating with a copy service of a host to identify writers associated with the copy service, the identification comprising a type of a writer as being one of a system writer or an application writer;
• adding writers identified as system writers to a list of writers that should participate in a backup operation;
• for writers identified as application writers, iterating through each component of an application writer to determine whether a component of the application writer has a name or logical path that includes a name of a system service;
• when any component of the application writer has the name or logical path that includes the name of the system service, promoting the application writer to be of type system writer by adding the application writer to the list of writers that should participate in the backup operation;
• and
• backing up components of each writer listed in the list of writers.

A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed by one or more processors to implement a method comprising:

• communicating with a copy service of a host to identify writers associated with the copy service, the identification comprising a type of a writer as being one of a system writer or an application writer;
• adding writers identified as system writers to a list of writers that should participate in a backup operation;
• for writers identified as application writers, iterating through each component of an application writer to determine whether a component of the application writer has a name or logical path that includes a name of a system service;
• when any component of the application writer has the name or logical path that includes the name of the system service, promoting the application writer to be of type system writer by adding the application writer to the list of writers that should participate in the backup operation;
• and
• backing up components of each writer listed in the list of writers.