JP2013045191A - Backup device, backup method, and backup program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To store data with high user need for backup even though the user is not required to consciously specify data for backup.SOLUTION: In data operation by a user or a backup terminal, the backup terminal 10 registers in advance an application of which data is to be backed up, receives a start or an end of the registered application for operating the data, and in response to the start or the end of the application, executes backup of the data at a predetermined storage place. In this case, upon installing the application in the backup terminal 10, the backup terminal 10 automatically registers the application of a backup acquisition target.

Description

  The present invention relates to a backup device, a backup method, and a backup program for performing backup of data stored in a user terminal.

  In recent years, several methods for backing up data stored in a user terminal have been proposed. For example, an external storage device such as an external hard disk or USB memory can be connected to periodically back up differential data, or backed up to a server connected via a network (online storage, online Backup) is known (for example, Non-Patent Document 1).

  When such a backup is performed based on the user's operation, if the user forgets the backup operation instruction, the result is that the backup is not executed, and the certainty of creating the backup data is lacking.

  Therefore, a method is known in which a backup is automatically acquired by monitoring a predetermined folder designated in advance in the user's terminal (for example, Patent Document 1). According to such a technique, files and data stored in the monitoring target folder are reliably backed up regardless of the user's intention.

JP 2010-176256 A

McAfee Corporation, “McAfee Online Backup”, [online], [searched on August 18, 2011], Internet <http://www.mcafee.com/japan/home/pd/Online_backup/default.asp>

  However, the backup by the monitoring target folder is not effective unless all the folders storing the data desired to be backed up are designated before the backup is executed. Here, when an application of today is installed in a terminal, it is common to store user data or the like in a folder provided in each application.

  Therefore, every time a new application is installed, a new folder needs to be specified, and the user may forget to specify this folder. It is desirable for the user to unconsciously back up all the data desired by the user regardless of whether or not a new application is installed.

  Therefore, the present inventor considered that there is a limit to the conventional idea of automatically specifying data and folders to be backed up in advance. In other words, the user does not specify data that needs to be backed up in advance, but conversely, since the data used by the user is highly important for the user, the idea of backing up such important data is desirable. Focused on not being.

  The present invention provides a backup device, a backup method, and a backup program for storing data having high backup needs for the user even though the user does not need to consciously specify data for backup. Objective.

  The present invention provides the following solutions.

The invention according to the first feature includes a registration module that pre-registers an application for performing backup of the data at the time of data operation from the user or the backup terminal,
An application activation acceptance module that accepts activation of the registered application to manipulate the data;
A backup device (for example, the backup terminal 10 and the backup server 100) including a backup module that executes backup of the data in a predetermined storage location in response to the activation of the application is provided.

  According to the first aspect of the invention, when data is operated from the user or the backup terminal, an application for performing backup of the data is registered in advance, and the registered application is operated in order to operate the data. In response to the activation, the data is backed up to a predetermined storage location in response to the activation of the application. Therefore, since the corresponding data is backed up when the application starts, it is possible to save data that has high backup needs for the user even though the user does not need to consciously specify the data for backup. Is possible.

  The invention according to the first feature is the category of the backup device, but the same operation and effect are exhibited even in the category of the backup method and program.

  The invention according to a second feature is the invention according to the first feature, wherein the registration module provides a backup device that registers the application when the application is installed in the backup device. Therefore, even registration of an application to be backed up can be automated regardless of user operation.

The invention according to the third feature includes a registration module that pre-registers an application for performing backup of the data at the time of data operation from the user or the backup terminal,
An application termination acceptance module that manipulates the data and accepts termination of the registered application;
A backup device (for example, the backup terminal 10 and the backup server 100) including a backup module that executes backup of the data at a predetermined storage location in response to the termination of the application is provided.

  According to the third aspect of the invention, when a data operation is performed from a user or the backup terminal, an application for performing backup of the data is registered in advance, the data is operated, and the registered previous application is terminated. When the application is terminated, data backup is executed in a predetermined storage location. Therefore, since the corresponding data is backed up when the application is terminated, it is possible to save data that has high backup needs for the user even though the user does not need to consciously specify the data for backup. Is possible.

  The invention according to a fourth feature is the invention according to the third feature, wherein the backup module provides a backup device that preferentially backs up data edited by the application when the data to be backed up is restricted. To do.

  According to the present invention, a backup device, a backup method, and a backup device that can store data having high backup needs for the user even though the user does not need to consciously specify data for backup. A program can be provided.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the backup system 1. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the backup server 100 and the backup terminal 10. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the backup execution process executed by the backup terminal 10. FIG. 4 is a screen image diagram displayed on the backup terminal 10. FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of the backup server 100 and the backup terminal 10 according to another embodiment. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing SaaS type backup execution processing executed by the backup terminal 10 and the backup server 100.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This is merely an example, and the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to this.

[System configuration of backup system]
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a backup system 1 which is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The backup system 1 includes backup terminals 10a to 10c (hereinafter simply referred to as “10”), backup servers 100a and 100b (hereinafter simply referred to as “100”), a public line network 3 (Internet network, third generation, fourth generation). Communication network). The backup terminal 10 is communicably connected to the backup server 100 via the public network 3 or within a LAN (Local Area Network).

  The backup terminal 10 may be a general information terminal capable of storing data, and is an information device or an electrical appliance having functions to be described later. The backup terminal 10 may be, for example, white goods such as a refrigerator or a washing machine in addition to a network device such as a personal computer 10a, a mobile phone, a smartphone 10b, a slate terminal 10c, a composite printer, a television, a router, or a gateway. Alternatively, it may be a general information home appliance such as a telephone, a netbook terminal, an electronic book terminal, an electronic dictionary terminal, a portable music player, and a portable content playback / recording player.

  The backup server 100 may be a server 100a connected to the public line network 3 and capable of communication as long as it has a function to be described later, but a device 100b having a NAS (Network Attached Storage) function that exists in the LAN. Or the apparatus 100b which has functions, such as a router and a gateway, may be sufficient.

[Description of each function]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the functional blocks of the backup terminal 10 and the backup server 100 and the relationship between the functions.

  The backup terminal 10 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a RAM (Random Access Memory), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and the like as the control unit 11, and the data communication unit 14 is, for example, WiFi (compliant with IEEE802.11). A device compatible with Wireless Fidelity, or a wireless device compliant with the IMT-2000 standard such as a third or fourth generation mobile communication system (wired LAN connection may be used).

  The backup terminal 10 includes, as the touch panel input unit 13, a touch panel that outputs and displays data and images controlled by the control unit and receives input from the user. As an alternative to the touch panel input unit, a normal monitor, keyboard, mouse, or the like may be used. In addition, the backup terminal 10 includes a data storage unit such as a hard disk, a semiconductor memory, a recording medium, and a memory card as the data storage unit 12 that stores data and files.

  In the backup terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program in the application layer, thereby realizing the registration module 20 in cooperation with the data storage unit 12. In the backup terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program in the application layer, thereby realizing the backup module 22 in cooperation with the data storage unit 12 and the data communication unit 14. Furthermore, in the backup terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program in the application layer, thereby realizing the activation reception module 21 in cooperation with the touch panel input unit 13.

  The backup server 100 includes a central processing unit (CPU), a random access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), and the like as a control unit (not shown), and a data communication unit 104 such as, for example, IEEE 802.11. A compliant WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) compatible device is provided (may be wired). In addition, the backup server 100 includes a data storage unit using a hard disk or a semiconductor memory as the data storage unit 102.

[Backup execution processing]
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the backup execution process executed by the backup terminal 10. In this example, the backup terminal 10 alone performs a backup execution process by reading and executing a predetermined program.

  First, the registration module 20 of the backup terminal 10 executes application registration processing (step S01). The registration module 20 may accept application registration by manually accepting an application designation from a user.

  Note that the registration module 20 may detect the installed application at the timing of installation in the backup terminal 10 and register the application regardless of whether or not the user designates it.

  Next, in order to operate (view, edit, delete, etc.) the files and data stored in the data storage unit 12 of the backup terminal 10, the activation reception module 21 is associated with the files and data. Is detected (step S02). When the activation reception module 21 detects the activation of the application (step S02: “YES”), the process proceeds to step S03. If the activation reception module 21 does not detect activation of the application registered by the registration module 20 (step S02: “NO”), the activation reception module 21 waits for processing.

  Here, detecting the activation of an application associated with a file or data may mean detecting the activation of the application when the application is activated by designating the file or data by the user. . For example, as shown in FIG. 4, when the user designates and clicks a pointer 32 for designating an icon in the settlement report file 31, the settlement report file can be viewed or edited. At this time, a file is specified and an application to be started is detected.

  In addition, the detection of an application may not only detect a manual designation from the user, but may also detect an application started by a program that operates on the backup terminal 10 regardless of a user operation.

  The activation reception module 21 determines whether the application whose activation has been detected is an application registered by the registration module 20 (step S03). If the activation reception module 21 determines that the application whose activation has been detected is an application registered by the registration module 20, the activation reception module 21 moves the process to step S04 (step S03: “YES”). If the activation reception module 21 determines that the application whose activation has been detected is not an application registered by the registration module 20, it ends the process (step S <b> 03: “NO”).

  Next, when the activation reception module 21 determines that the application whose activation has been detected is an application registered by the registration module 20, the backup module 22 is activated (step S04). Then, the backup of the file specified by the started application is started. Then, this file is stored in the data storage unit 102 of the backup server 100 via the data storage unit 12 of the backup terminal 10 or the data communication unit 14 (step S05).

  As a screen image of the backup terminal 10, as shown in FIG. 4, the application window 34 of the designated file is displayed by the registered application, and the backup of the settlement report file has been completed after the process of step S05. A notification message 33 may be displayed on the screen.

  If there are two or more files operated by starting up the application, backup of both of the two or more files may be executed. In this case, if the number of files operated by starting up the application is too large and the processing performance of the backup terminal 10 may be reduced, backup may be acquired by limiting only predetermined files. That is, among the many files, the file with the latest update date may be given priority, or the file being edited by the user may be given priority. For example, when the data amount of the designated file is a predetermined size or more, or when the processing load on the control unit 11 increases, processing for limiting the files to be backed up may be performed.

[SaaS type backup execution processing]
Next, SaaS type backup execution processing will be described as another embodiment. In the above-described embodiment, the backup terminal 10 executes the backup execution process. In this process, the backup terminal 10 and the backup server 100 cooperate to execute the process.

  FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of the backup terminal 10 and the backup server 100 according to the present embodiment. The hardware configuration and network configuration of each device are the same as in the above example.

  In the backup terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program, thereby realizing the registration module 20 in cooperation with the data storage unit 12. In the backup terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program, thereby realizing the second backup module 23 in cooperation with the data storage unit 12 and the data communication unit 14. Furthermore, in the backup terminal 10, the control unit 11 reads a predetermined program in the application layer, thereby realizing the activation reception module 21 in cooperation with the touch panel input unit 13.

  In the backup server 100, the control unit 101 reads a predetermined program, thereby realizing the second registration module 120 in cooperation with the data storage unit 102. In the backup server 100, the control unit 101 reads a predetermined program, thereby realizing the backup module 122 in cooperation with the data storage unit 102 and the data communication unit 104.

  Please refer to FIG. First, the registration module 20 of the backup terminal 10 executes an application registration process as in the previous embodiment (step S10). The registration module 20 may accept application registration by manually accepting an application designation from a user. When executing the application registration process, the registration module 20 transmits the registered application data to the backup server 100. The second registration module 120 of the backup server 100 stores the received application data (step S11).

  Next, in order to operate (view, edit, delete, etc.) the files and data stored in the data storage unit 12 of the backup terminal 10, the activation reception module 21 is associated with the files and data. Is detected (step S12). When the activation reception module 21 detects the activation of the application (step S12: “YES”), the activation reception module 21 notifies the backup server 100 and moves the process to step S13. If the activation reception module 21 does not detect the activation of the application registered by the registration module 20 (step S12: “NO”), the activation reception module 21 waits for processing.

  The backup server 100 determines whether the application whose activation has been detected is an application stored in the second registration module 120 (step S13). If the backup server 100 determines that the application whose activation has been detected is a registered application, the backup server 100 moves the process to step S14 (step S13: “YES”). If the backup server 100 determines that the application whose activation has been detected is not an application registered by the second registration module 120, the backup server 100 ends the process (step S13: "NO").

  Next, the backup server 100 instructs the backup of the file specified by the started application (step S14). In response to an instruction from the backup server 100, the second backup module 23 of the backup terminal 10 starts backup (step S15). The file specified by the application is transmitted to the backup server 100 (step S16). Then, the backup module 122 of the backup server 100 stores the specified file in the data storage unit 102 (step S17).

[About backup processing when the application ends]
In the above example, the backup terminal 10 detects the start of the application and executes the backup process. However, the backup terminal 10 may detect the end of the application and execute the backup process. That is, in the backup execution process, in step S02, in the SaaS backup execution process, step 12 is replaced with “detection of application termination due to file operation”, and the subsequent processes (step S03 or step S13 and subsequent steps) are executed. May be.

  In particular, the backup process at the end of the application is useful for the user because the backup is automatically created after the user edits the file.

  Also, when multiple files are specified at the time of application startup and backup processing should be limited to only predetermined files (as described above, if the amount of data of the file to be backed up is too large, When the load factor of the unit 11 is high), a file edited by this application may be set to be preferentially backed up compared to a file that has not been edited.

  The means and functions described above are realized by a computer (including a CPU, an information processing apparatus, and various terminals) reading and executing a predetermined program. The program is provided in a form recorded on a computer-readable recording medium such as a flexible disk, CD (CD-ROM, etc.), DVD (DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, etc.), for example. In this case, the computer reads the program from the recording medium, transfers it to the internal storage device or the external storage device, stores it, and executes it. The program may be recorded in advance in a storage device (recording medium) such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or a magneto-optical disk, and provided from the storage device to a computer via a communication line.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to these embodiment mentioned above. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. is not.

  1 backup system, 3 public line network, 10 backup terminal, 100 backup server

Claims (6)

A registration module that pre-registers an application for performing backup of the data at the time of data operation from the user or the backup terminal;
An application activation acceptance module that accepts activation of the registered application to manipulate the data;
A backup device comprising: a backup module that executes backup of the data in a predetermined storage location in response to activation of the application.   The backup device according to claim 1, wherein the registration module registers the application when the application is installed in the backup device. A registration module that pre-registers an application for performing backup of the data at the time of data operation from the user or the backup terminal;
An application termination acceptance module that manipulates the data and accepts termination of the registered application;
And a backup module that executes backup of the data in a predetermined storage location in response to termination of the application.   4. The backup device according to claim 3, wherein the backup module preferentially backs up data edited by the application when restricting data to be backed up. A registration step of registering in advance an application for performing backup of the data at the time of data operation from the user or the backup terminal;
An application reception step for accepting activation or termination of the registered application;
A backup method comprising: a backup step of performing backup of the data in a predetermined storage location in response to activation or termination of the application. On the backup terminal,
A registration module that pre-registers an application for performing backup of the data at the time of data operation from the user or the backup terminal;
An application reception module that accepts activation or termination of the registered application;
A backup program for functioning as a backup module for executing backup of the data in a predetermined storage location in response to activation or termination of the application.

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