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Sharing backup info ChemIT staff have come across which may help others backing up their personal computers. |
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Backing up your valuable data is critical
- Your laptop is stolen laptop, which contains your data.
- Your hard drive fails. It's not a question of "if", only a question of "when":
- Stolen laptop, with your data If
KEY TAKE-HOME: If particular data is important to you, you must have it in more than
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one place. No single location you own can be considered sufficient.
- Secured copies of your valuable data in different locations keeps your data safe!
Doing personal backups can usually be easy
- Establish an automatic method for backups.
- See below for Cornell-funded services good for doing this.
- If you have to think about copying files, such as manually copying files to a USB drive when you think of it, "it's not backup".
- Verify your backups, perhaps with calendar entry reminders to check.
- Often, with cloud-based sync services such as the Cornell-funded services below, this is easy.
Examples using Cornell-funded services
These are loudcloud-based, sync client-enabled services, similar to Dropbox.com.
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- OneDrive for Business (as of Dec 2015, not ideal for Mac users)
- Box (good for Macs or Windows)
Information for those who no longer have access to Cornell-funded services
Examples some folks have had experience with
- CrashPlan
- Do you have one you'd recommend? Notify Chemistry IT to add it to this list!
Other examples we'd like to hear others have had experience with
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