US Patent 12124340 Management method, recording medium, and management apparatus

A management apparatus including a storage device configured to store restoration rules which define a plurality of patterns relating to the restoration in a restoration configuration indicating a copy source and a copy destination of the data, and backup configuration information relating to the backup source and the backup destination of the data, the management apparatus executes: specification processing of specifying restoration target data; selection processing of selecting a specific restoration rule from the restoration rules; and generation processing of generating, by referring to the backup configuration information, in a restoration configuration of the restoration target data in which the backup source of the restoration target data specified by the specification processing is the copy destination and the backup destination of the restoration target data is the copy source, a restoration pattern of the restoration target data in accordance with the specific restoration rule selected by the selection processing.