depicted software components of fig1 may be paged in and out of main memory 110 in a conventional manner from a storage medium such as hard drive 151 in various embodiments intranet portal 120 is operable to manage and maintain a plurality of electronic documents for a plurality of system users in one particular implementation intranet portal 120 is embodied by a microsoft sharepoint server or a similar enterprise information portal program turning now to fig2 a block diagram of one embodiment of a backup system 200 is illustrated backup system 200 includes intranet portal 120 application 130 and backup application 140 that may be included in computer system 100 of fig1 backup system 200 also includes a file system 220 that may be stored within hard drive 151 removable storage 153 or otherwise employed by computer system 100 for data storage as referred to herein a u201c file system u201d shall mean an information system which references and stores data hierarchically organized in files and directories in a volume created on a storage medium the file system provides access to the data on the storage medium backup system 200 may further include a backup medium 250 coupled to backup application 140 that may be used by backup application 140 to store backup datasets in one embodiment intranet portal 120 may manage and organize electronic content as items within lists as referred to herein an u201c item u201d shall mean a document announcement task discussion topic or other electronic content that is managed by an intranet portal and a u201c list u201d shall mean a logical group of items in the illustrated embodiment intranet portal 120 includes lists 230 and.