[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA study design query

[Trish Cotter]

I'm warming to the idea of re-enacting a disaster. That way we could bring in the multimedia /film
elective class of students to film the whole thing and put it up on you-tube, perhaps censoring
the language of the tech support staff when the recovery doesn't work.
-- 
Regards,
Trish Cotter
Koonung Secondary College
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tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au

On Wed, August 22, 2007 3:30 pm, Brendyn Hancock wrote:
> Trish
>
> I'm all for re-enacting disasters.
>
> We could get those make-up people from the emergency services to come
> in and help do up all the kids as victims of a school disaster and then
> do a test of recovering the data from a fire in the server room...
>
>  :-) its the end of the day, what can I say...
>
> Brendyn
>
> Brendyn Hancock
> IT Manager
> bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au
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>
>>>> "Trish Cotter" <tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au> 22/08/2007 3:15 pm >>>
> Actually all you need to do to test it is really take one of the backup
> tapes (or the set of
> backup tapes depending on your preferred method) that you have stored
> off site or in a fire proof
> safe and try to restore it with the data. If there is an error in the
> recovery you will know
> whether your backup strategy is working. I don't think you are supposed
> to re-enact a disaster.
> --
> Regards,
> Trish Cotter
> Koonung Secondary College
> *******
> tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au
>
> On Wed, August 22, 2007 2:35 pm, Russell Edwards wrote:
>>
>> On 22/08/2007, at 2:27 PM, Mark Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> Spring is in the air and a young man's fancy lightly turns to
>>> thoughts of the ITA study design.
>>>
>>> ITA Key Knowledge Unit 4 Outcome 2  Dotpoint 5 is "Disaster
>>> recovery strategies, including testing."
>>>
>>> I've been wondering how testing can help one recover from disaster.
>>> Sure it can help _prevent_ disaster, but that's not "recovery".
>>
>> Well, to be fair, it said strategies, not *effective*
>> strategies ;-).  Other examples could be "do nothing" or "make a
>> visual representation of your thinking".
>>
>> Russell
>>
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