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Backups

Desktop / Laptop Backups

You are responsible for backing up your own data.

You can backup your data to one of the several available File Shares, which are then backed up offsite by OIT.

Manual Backups for PCs

Drag the Documents and Settings/username directory into the users/username directory on the server.

Automatic Backups for PCs

Soon, we will provide a script to make this easier.

Manual Backups for Macs

1. Open up Drive Utility
2. Create a "Sparse Image" of 10 GB named "username-backup" on the desktop.
3. Unmount the image by dragging the mount (the little white drive) to the trash.
4. Connect to the server and find the users/username directory.
5. Drag the image into that directory.
6. Double click to mount the image from the network.
7. Drag the whole user directory into the drive on the desktop.

Automatic Backups for Macs

Soon, we will provide a script to make this easier.

Server Backups

SED Servers are backed up with OIT. Data can be restored from local backups or offsite tape by OIT. In general, backups are kept for one year.

Filemaker DB Backups

All SED Filemaker Databases on sed-fm.bu.edu are backed up locally every night and every weekend. This means, if you goof, sed-it can give you a copy of your database from last night or last week. We also have the option of pulling from backup tape (OIT) but this takes longer.

Web Page Backups

All official BU webpages are backed up on the server... meaning http://www.bu.edu/any/such/thing is backed up.

That said, sometimes you want something that used to be up on the web, but it got deleted/munged/misplaced a long time ago. There are two easy ways to grab old content:

• You may want to consider the WaybackMachine which archives the ENTIRE INTERNET on a regular basis.

• Use the Google cached version of the page.

Personal Backups

If you are backing up data for your home machine SED-IT staff members recommend "portable hard drives". These are external hard drives based upon laptop hard drives. They are easy to carry (off site or into a fire safe) and only need to be connected to a USB port. Regular external drives are much larger, and need connections to both power and USB.

Just make sure to get one with a standard USB cable. Some of them use proprietary cables.