Appeal No. 1999-2233
Application No. 08/794,691
that a file [stored therein] is to be backed up, a
backup control command is invoked [by an operator]
and the operating system invokes a backup control
program to actually perform the backup operation.
Then, the backup control program initiates a backup
operation; and finally, files are backed up onto
storage media, whether another disk or a tape, which
may be removed from the digital data processing
system and stored in an external location.
The “database system” disclosed by Walls is controlled by the
noted operator and the applications programs (column 4, lines
43 through 52 and column 6, lines 45 through 54), and the
“file system” is composed of the files stored on disks and
managed by the file management system (column 5, lines 10
through 21). The “reference in the database system to a file
in the file system” (brief, page 8) is an explicit command
from the operator’s console to a specific file in the file
system (column 6, lines 47 through 49). When the backup file
is completed, and the backup disk is stored in an external
location (column 6, line 68 through column 7, line 3), the
Walls’ system has completed the task of “storing a backup copy
of the file in storage external to the file system. . .”
(brief, page 8). Since all of the broadly worded limitations
of claim 1 read on the teachings of Walls, the 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) rejection of claim 1 is sustained.
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