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from Jason Haston hide details 16:57 (15 minutes ago)
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Richard Goodfellow ,
iainwood@google.com
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date 11 Sep 2009 16:57
subject Re: Google Application
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Hello Mr. Goodfellow, I would like to share my thoughts concerning preparing my recent interview.
This covers post interview studying, the interview and my actions after before the interview.

I write with a positive note!

After the interview with Mr. Ian Wood, it seemd clear that I needed to study up on some topics.

And studied I have! On the following topics:
Studied the 'ping' protocol, lamenting not having mentioned "ARP/RARP" or the ICMP packet layout
Researched kill signals. There are many more than the two I use!
Learning the fork command methods.
I know RAID well, but could have prepared more!
Memorized the passwd file as I missed the second field, 'has password' and the sixth field, user's HOME
Hopefully my answers were sufficient on topics of:
load balancing of servers and switches. I should have included applications as well!
PID for init is 1
run levels
shell programming
ssh monitoring of remote machines
variations on echo *
On the day of the interview, I was recovering from a partial root canal the day before. The good news is that my Wisdom Tooth will replace this bad tooth. Nonetheless, I was a tiny bit run-down. Dark chocolate would have helped here!

In preparation for the interview, topics studied were:
single line sort commands and code
MapReduce
GFS
zfs
Internat Protocols (this helped!), TCP/IP Architecture stack
x86 Solaris installations
perl
Cloud Computing
MySQL Database Adminsitration
algorythms
Google address in Pyrmont, verifying it was near my wife's property
I reviewed my own background in:
C++ spatial mapping query software designed for map intersections
data warehousing
GPS location algorythms
US Tax code processes
snmp polling large networks in NSW
machine management techniques for regions of Australia/New Zealand and 35 US States
Server Health and Status Monitor / machine control / prefabricated scripts using sh keys and daemons over a trusted network
Thanks for reading. It has helped me quit a bit to compile my thoughts.

Hope to hear from you soon, -Jason Haston 0448 284 442 jason.haston@gmail.com

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2009/9/5 Jason Haston

north sydney
www.ncbitc.com

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Jason Haston  
Sent:	Friday, 11 September 2009 5:03 PM
To:	James Madigan; Darryn Ferris; Alistair Weir; James Triggs; Dale Field
Cc:	Jason Haston
Subject:	notes from ShadowProtect seminar 

Hello James, Darryn, James, Dale & Alistair, here are some notes from a seminar I attended yesterday.
It covered the topic of Disaster Recovery for a Windows server.

My reason for attending was to compare this technology with Bare Metal Restore techniques used in the OpenSource arena ...

Somehow, the speaker volunteered myself to run the demo.  

The demo entailed using a full/incremental backup strategy on an enterprise Windows machine.  
The backup media was an external disk.  
Then this platform was declared unusable, so a new server must be built.  
A second laptop was brought in & booted with a special startup disk from the same backup vendor.  
The backups were applied from the external disk, and the system recovered.

This took 15 minutes and was impressive indeed!

This is powered by a 'Shadow Copy' algorithm using write to disk methods & VSS.  
VSS is employed across many other backup strategies.  
There are many aspects which set this solution apart.
Notable points from the demo:
"Only product that can backup the physical and virtual environment every 15 minutes"
uses VMware technology
storagecraft.com.au/INSTALL for a system checker on whether it will run on your hardware

Employing this solution at Crane would certainly save the Windows staff time in man-hours and funds in maintenance fees.

Comments?  I can share the 9-month demo software with you and relate my experience.

These gentlemen would certainly appreciate a call.

Contacts:
General Manager Kouresh Ghassemi
+61 2 9492 6523 kouresh.ghassemi@mcr.com.au

Senior Account Manager Masoud Douzan
+61 2 9492 6508 masoud.douzan@mcr.com.au

MCR has offered to perform a demo in-house at Crane.  The next function will be at a Country Club in November.

They and StorageCraft are located in North Sydney.

Apparently, this software works on Linux platforms as well, but only with recovery to the same hardware.
I will be testing this.

That is most of it, -Jason

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Jason Haston  
Sent:	Friday, 11 September 2009 3:28 PM
To:	CG Operations MRT Windows
Cc:	Jason Haston
Subject:	notes from ShadowProtect seminar 

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Jason Haston  
Sent:	Friday, 11 September 2009 3:29 PM
To:	James Gillon
Cc:	Jason Haston
Subject:	FW: notes from ShadowProtect seminar 

fyi

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