What is the backup policy?
All accounts are backed-up for purposes of disaster recovery only. Restoration of individual files (e.g. due to accidental deletion by the user) is not a feature of the MyWeb service. For this reason it is important that account holders maintain their own current and complete backup of any file(s) placed within their MyWeb account.
The CS Department systems group performs daily backups on all user-data stored on the three Department file-servers: bach, chopin, and parsons. Backups are performed every day in the very early hours of the morning, This means that if your data is lost on a given day, we can probably restore it to its state at midnight the day before. WE DO NOT BACK UP DESK-TOP SYSTEMS. With desk-top Unix systems this is not a concern, because the network is architected such that user files are automatically stored on the servers. However, Microsoft systems (PCs) put some burden of data-integrity on the user. When using a PC, it is important to take one of three steps to make sure your data is backed up: • 1) back it up yourself by copying it to your favorite media (ZIP, floppy, writable CD, etc), • 2) copy it to one of the file-servers (bach, chopin, or parsons), or • 3) map a network drive to your Unix home directory, and do all your work on that mapped drive (via samba file service). The tape-cycle
