ChemIT sharing their recommendations and best-practices. May be of particular value to research groups.
ChemIT-recommended services
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Costs |
Resource links |
Notes and considerations |
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EZ-Backup |
Per computer: |
Default setting is to backup full computer, including the OS, which makes for a larger backup and thus potentially more expensive. |
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File server |
Per group: |
Service backs up all files there via EZ-Backup at no additional cost. |
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Box.com |
Free to CU members, up to 10GB |
Good for working files. Good for sharing, including to your own, other computers. Limited space. |
Other backup-related info
Hard drives fail
It's not a question of if a hard drive will fail. Only a question of when. Thus, make sure your unique data is not on just one hard drive.
- Backups is a term which applies to restoring current or very recent data.
- Archiving is a term focusing more on restoring prior versions of data or older data.
Synchronizing is not a panacea
Synchronizing, especially without access to prior versions, can confer very limited data protection since undesired changes get sync'ed. What can happen to a hacked DropBox.com account demonstrate this danger.
Ideas to back up Box.com (or DropBox.com) files
- Please refer to our page geared towards backing up private cloud accounts for current ideas from ChemIT.