Method and system for creating and restoring an image file

Details Method and system for creating and restoring an image file Method and system for creating and restoring an image file

2007-09-27

2010-10-19

Bataille, Pierre-Michel (Department: 2186)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Memory configuring

C711S162000, C711S165000

Reexamination Certificate

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07818532

ABSTRACT:
An image file format and a method of creating and restoring an image file is provided by the present invention. The image file format includes a plurality of streams such as a control stream, a data stream, a bitmap stream, and a cluster map stream. An audit trail stream, properties stream and fix-up stream may also be provided. The present invention allows the contents of a storage media to be captured and stored as an image file. The image file is used to restore the storage media to a previous state or allows multiple computers to be provided with a common configuration. The plurality of streams further allow the image file to be viewed, edited or otherwise manipulated.

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