Jonathan M Richey

US Patent:

20050165853, Jul 28, 2005

Filed:

Jan 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/762866

Inventors:

Kevin Turpin - Orem UT, US
Jonathan Richey - Springville UT, US
Michael Steed - Genola UT, US

Assignee:

Altiris, Inc. - Lindon UT

International Classification:

G06F012/00

US Classification:

707200000

Abstract:

A local imager () copies each allocation unit () occupied by a file () of a file system () to a locally-stored image file () within the same partition () as the file system (). The allocation units () may be compressed as they are copied, resulting in a locally-stored image file () that occupies fewer allocation units () than the original file system (). In addition, the local imager () adds a directory map () to the locally-stored image file () that associates copied allocation units () in the locally-stored image file () with names of corresponding files () from the file system ().