ChemIT sharing their recommendations and best-practices. May be of particular value to research groups.
Key point: 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, 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.
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
How 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.