[Year 12 IT Apps] re: ITA exam post mortem Q 19

[Mark Kelly]

Thanks for the info, David.

I wonder if they rewrote their procedures after the fire ;-)

Howard, David wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, I did forget to omit one small part, it was the weeks work which was an incremental backup. The full backups were stored offsite. It meant that they only lost a few hours work. We don't obviously have all the details, but my point was that "Evacuation" procedures do occur.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 9:43 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] re: ITA exam post mortem Q 19
> 
> Hi David
> 
> If the people in Chapel St "would have lost the lot" if they didn't grab 
> the USB drive, they must have had no backups of the data on the drive. 
> Not wise...
> 
> Anyway, the question was asking about evacuating the backups, not the 
> original data.
> 
> 
> Howard, David wrote:
>> I can't find the article about it, but a few years ago when a studio burnt down on Chapel St, their procedure was to grab the USB Hard drive and run. Which they did!
>>
>> I have used this example over and over with students, evacuation procedures like this were important for the business. From memory the workers we quoted for saying that if they didn't take the drive and have it readily accessible they would have lost the lot.
>>
>> I thought the question was quite good.
>>
>> David Howard
>> St Michaels Grammar School
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of andrew Kemp
>> Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 8:25 AM
>> To: itapps at edulists.com.au
>> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] re: ITA exam post mortem Q 19 
>>
>> One last thing,
>> I think Mark should have used his schmacko for this one. I've gone over
>> this question for a while and still don't get it. What the hell are
>> "evacuation procedures for backup files"? I have NEVER heard this term
>> used to describe inanimate objects. This question is the real dog.
>> regards
>> Andy Kemp
>>
> 
> 


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