A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining
a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data
written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal,
and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery; and a
management computer. In the computer system, the management computer
instructs the storage system to determine whether data at a recovery
point after a recovery point of the latest snapshot can be recovered
within a specific period of time and to apply, if it has been determined
that the data cannot be recovered within the specific period of time, a
journal to the latest snapshot to update the latest snapshot to a new
snapshot in such a manner that the data can be recovered within the
specific period of time.