The home directories and temporary storage areas for the various platforms are shown in the chart below. These files are regularly backed up to tape media and stored for several months. The temporary storage is intended for large output files that may be generated by any application on any platform. These files are never backed up and the user should ensure their reproducibility if for any reason they are lost. Files in the VAX work area are deleted based on creation dates that are over seven days old.
All systems provide basic utilities for backup operations.
Some are only of use to the system administrators while others are of use to all users.