Data stored on department servers is considered secure and protected against corruption and theft.
However, data stored on individual workstations, whether desktop or portable, is vulnerable to hard drive crashes, viruses, and the theft of the device. Wise users understand that the best protection against the loss of the valuable data on their personal workstations is the regular backup of that data to a secure space. The UMCE LAN NOS Groupware team has recently completed pilot testing of the new Windows workstation backup and disaster recovery service that employs technology from Connected Corporation . The service is not available for non-Windows workstations. CNB is available for general service workstations and is not appropriate for departmental server backup or as a research data archival service.