System and method for managing critical files

摘要: A system and method for managing critical files in an information handling system. Critical are those which difficult to recover after a failure, hard disk reformat, or user error. The file management of the present invention includes manager, can be accessed by programs through application programming interface (API). Programs call API register unregister files. is also provided. allows users files, view list all versions, along with name program added each list. Users may request backup restore one, several, at any time. database including version file, maintained. Backup copies stored storage. At predetermined times, such as shutdown boot, backed up. automatically every time started.