Real Projects from Real Students
- Every project here was built during our backup and disaster recovery course
- Students tackle actual recovery scenarios, not just theory or demos
- These solutions show how people think through data protection challenges from scratch
Featured Student Work
These projects demonstrate practical approaches to backup infrastructure, recovery automation, and system resilience planning.
Multi-Tier Backup Orchestration
Built an automated backup system that handles three different storage tiers based on data age and access patterns. Reduced storage costs by 42% while keeping recovery times under target SLAs.
Database Recovery Testing Framework
Created automated testing that validates database backups weekly without manual intervention. Catches corrupted backups before they become a problem during actual recovery.
Recovery Runbook Generator
Designed a system that generates step-by-step recovery procedures from infrastructure code. When disaster hits, teams have current documentation instead of outdated wiki pages.
How Students Build These Projects
Assessment and Planning
Students analyze a specific business scenario with real constraints. They identify critical data, calculate acceptable downtime, and map dependencies.
Infrastructure Setup
Build the actual backup systems using cloud platforms or on-premise tools. This includes storage configuration, network paths, and initial backup jobs.
Automation Development
Write scripts and workflows that eliminate manual steps. Students focus on making backups reliable without requiring someone to remember to run them.
Recovery Testing
Deliberately break things to verify recovery works. Students restore data to different environments and measure how long it actually takes.
Monitoring and Optimization
Add alerting for failed backups and optimize resource usage. Final deliverable includes complete documentation and cost breakdown.