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== Personas ==
 
== Personas ==
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* The busy photographic mum
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** Takes a lot of photos of her children
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** Cleans up the photos -- red eye reduction, trimming etc.
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* The Family Budgeter
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** Spreadsheets and word documents
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** Needs immediate access to files from anywhere
  
 
* Uncle Reggie the Family Historian
 
* Uncle Reggie the Family Historian
* The Family Budgeter
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** little to no internet
* The family photographer
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** wants data to live beyond his lifespan
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* The Coder
 
* The Coder
* The travelling graphic artist
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** Writes in many different languages
* The video compositor
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** Contributes to personal and public projects
* The musician
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* The writer
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* The travelling designer
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** Design work and graphic art for many clients
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** Uses his own equipment, or the client's
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** Travels a lot
  
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* Dadmin, CTO of the most important organisation in the world: his family.
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** A plan for the whole family
  
 
== What to Protect ==
 
== What to Protect ==

Latest revision as of 20:43, 11 March 2010

Personas

  • The busy photographic mum
    • Takes a lot of photos of her children
    • Cleans up the photos -- red eye reduction, trimming etc.
  • The Family Budgeter
    • Spreadsheets and word documents
    • Needs immediate access to files from anywhere
  • Uncle Reggie the Family Historian
    • little to no internet
    • wants data to live beyond his lifespan
  • The Coder
    • Writes in many different languages
    • Contributes to personal and public projects
  • The travelling designer
    • Design work and graphic art for many clients
    • Uses his own equipment, or the client's
    • Travels a lot
  • Dadmin, CTO of the most important organisation in the world: his family.
    • A plan for the whole family

What to Protect

  • Identify your stuff
  • Example Scenarios
  • Recovery Planning


Version Control

  • Manual
  • Distributed
  • Distributed Automatic


Alternatives to VC

  • Volume Shadow Copy
  • Mirroring
  • Replication


Backup

  • Mean time to failure
  • Onsite, Off site
  • Media
  • Online, off line


Triggering a Backup

  • Manual
  • Scheduled
  • Continuous


Restore

  • Manual
  • Live-recovery
  • Automatic failover


Data Forensics

  • Extraction
  • Repair
  • Recovery


Life Capture

  • Screen capture
  • Restore Process
  • Life Capture