95 machines can arrange to have their data backed up by Computing Services. Full backups will be done monthly and incremental backups weekly. At the most the user would lose one week of data if there were an equipment failure.
Backup frequency is constrained by network bandwidth and tape management capability.
We will back up all files in a share you will define on your machine called UserData . The location of this share on your hard drive isn't relevant as far as backups are concerned, but for administrative purposes we ask that you name it UserData . Keep copies of your important documents in the directory referenced by that share. Nothing else on your machine will be backed up, so that in the event of a system crash, the operating system and your applications will be reinstalled by the PC team, then the contents of UserData restored. In order to participate in the backup server, your machine must be logged into the GSB domain.