How Do I Backup my Workstation
Most people believe the
quote, "Hindsight is 20/20 vision". One of the most common visions in
computing is how important a backup of vital data can be once your workstation
hard drive has crashed.
Outlined
below are some available options for backing up data. The combination of all
three will provide maximum redundancy for your vital data.
Workstation backups (UCBackup and TSM)
Haas Computer Services
recommends the UCBackup service to backup all critical
data on your workstation.
Information
Services and Technology offers the UCBackup
service to campus departments for backing up individual workstations. The UCBackup cost can be minimal when compared to the time
savings of recreating lost data. This technology requires client software on
individual workstations and a valid UCBackup
account.
The
UCBackup team manages a large tape library. This
system is responsible for backups throughout the campus community. IBM's Tivoli
Storage Manager(TSM) software provides robust client/server
software for a reliable and configurable backup solution. Client support
is offered at Haas for both Solaris and Windows workstations. To ensure
availability of data during a catastrophe, tapes are stored at a secure offsite
storage location.
The main UCBackup website is ucbackup.berkeley.edu
Server storage space
(H:\ and I:\ drives)
Haas data servers are
backed up nightly. A full backup of each server is performed twice monthly. Any
file changed since the last full backup will be backed up during the nightly
incremental backup. This full-incremental scheme saves time and resources.
Server disk space is allocated and managed with individual quotas to ensure
equitable distribution of resources.
The Haas backup server
manages a tape library of over 150 tapes using Legato Networker
software. Legato Networker is an enterprise backup
solution capable of global systems management. Each tape has a capacity of 35-70gb with compression. We use a 15 slot and a 30 slot autochanger to manage the working set of tape volumes. This
helps ease administration of our tape space and speeds recovery of your
data. Haas servers run anti virus software to ensure your data remains
virus free. Norton AntiVirus software is continually
updated to ensure maximum effectiveness as a countermeasure against new
viruses.
Removable Media
Removable media can be physically removed from a workstation. 3-1/2" floppy, ZIP drive, JAZ drive and removable tape are all considered removable media. This media is relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain. These types of media are not recommended as a primary backup solution as they may fail without notice. Recovery of vital data from these media failures is cost prohibitive.