Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same

A system for protecting a user's productivity upon detecting a failure with a storage media of a primary drive of the user's computer system, the system comprising;

• a secondary peripheral storage device having a storage media that is formatted to be a protection enabled media and contains a backup set of data including a default set of boot files and operating system files, the backup set of data being internally backed up;
• and
• the primary drive having a modified MBR sector, a signature on a second sector following the modified MBR sector, and a continuation of a boot management code that is also within the modified MBR sector, the continuation of the boot management code is contained in sectors beginning with a third sector following the second sector counting in an LBA format;
• wherein when the failure occurs with the primary drive, the boot management code will identify drives connected to the computer system and enable booting to the secondary peripheral storage device.

A method for protecting data of a computer system, comprising:

• preparing a storage media of a peripheral storage device associated with the computer system to be a protection enabled media;
• selecting a backup set of data stored in a hard drive of the computer system, the backup set of data includes a default set of boot files and operating system files;
• creating a spare tire by copying the backup set of data from the hard drive of the computer system to the storage media of the peripheral storage device using a file-based copying scheme;
• enabling the peripheral storage device to incrementally copy portions of the backup set of data from the hard drive of the computer system during normal use after creating the spare tire;
• scheduling when to incrementally copy portions of the backup set of data;
• and
• making a footprint image of data stored on the hard drive of the computer system, the footprint image containing a list of operating system data, a list of peripheral device data, a list of controller card data, and a time stamp of when the footprint image was created, the footprint image being written to a file in text format each time a successful boot to the hard drive of the computer system occurs.