Employing user-context in connection with backup or restore of data

摘要

The claimed subject matter relates to architectures for facilitating network-accessible or local backup or restore features in a manner that leverages event-oriented contextual information associated with one or more users of the data to be backed up or restored. In particular, a first restore-based architecture can interface with an associated second backup-based architecture that hosts or maintains a backup data store in order to retrieve a version of the data file that is desired by a user. Additionally, the first architecture can obtain a log of contextual event descriptions that can be aggregated by the second architecture or obtained independently from, e.g., a social networking service or a calendar application associated with the user. Thus, in addition to displaying time and date information associated with the desired version, the first architecture can provide the user with a social context of event from the social services feeds to aid the user in distinguishing between multiple versions of the data file.

主权项

1. A memory having computer-executable instructions stored therein, wherein in response to execution the computer-executable instructions enable performance of operations that restore data to a computing system, the operations comprising:
receiving, from a data store, information regarding multiple backed-up versions of a data file; presenting, on a display device, a plurality of contextual event descriptions, wherein each contextual event description of the plurality includes information regarding an event from a user's calendar and information that correlates the event to a corresponding version of the data file from the multiple backed-up versions of the data file, and wherein the corresponding version of the data file was backed up in temporal proximity to the event; receiving an indication that represents selection of a particular version of the data file corresponding to a particular contextual event description of the plurality of contextual event descriptions; and restoring the particular version of the data file to a computing system.