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

A computing device for restoring backed up data, the computing device comprising:

• at least one memory and at least one processor that respectively store and execute instructions to:
• receive, from a data store, information regarding multiple backed-up versions of a data file;
• present 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;
• receive an indication of a selection of a particular version of the data file corresponding to a particular contextual event description of the plurality of contextual event descriptions or of the particular contextual event description;
• and
• restore the particular version of the data file.

A memory having instructions stored therein for archiving data, the instructions, in response to execution, enabling operations that comprise:

• identifying data designated for backup;
• logging at least one contextual event description as being associated with the data designated for backup, wherein each of the at least one contextual event descriptions includes information regarding an event from a user's calendar that is substantially contemporaneous to the logging of the at least one contextual event description;
• archiving a current version of the identified data designated for backup to a backup data store;
• and
• archiving a log of at least a portion of the logged at least one contextual event description in association with the current version of the identified data designated for backup.