摘要 |
<p>A user computer (16) backs up its files via the Internet to a data center (12). Should the user computer (16) malfunction or be lost, the user can contact the vendor of the computer, and in response a vendor computer (18) sends a request for data to the data center (12). The data center (12) downloads the data via the Internet onto a bootable disk partition established on the vendor computer (18), and the vendor computer (18) then transfers what is essentially an image of the disk of the user computer (16) onto a replacement computer (22). The replacement computer (22) can be a new computer or the repaired original user computer (16). <IMAGE></p> |