US Patent 11409610 Context-driven data backup and recovery

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and processes to perform context-driven (or context-based) data backup and recovery operations. A request to perform a backup operation on a dataset is received. Current external context datasets related to the dataset and generated based on prioritization techniques are collected from computing devices. a saved context dataset is generated based on the current external context datasets. The backup operation is performed by storing a backup image that includes at least a portion of the dataset and the saved context dataset.