Backups

Backups are run as follows:

• Weekly starting Friday night: /nfs/home/
• Quarterly (or on demand) on the first day of the quarter: /nfs/db, /nfs/store
• Never: /nfs/work
• No other files are backed up routinely. If you have files elsewhere, we recommend the use of Crashplan to copy files to /nfs/home/<userid> whence they will be backed up.

We have four save packs that we rotate for /nfs/home. We set aside one of these savepacks quarterly, on the first backup of the quarter, as an offsite backup. Thus at any time there is a weekly backup made starting Friday night for the last four weeks, and a quarterly backup for the last four quarters.

At time of writing, this policy is only implemented on Cluster 2. We are currently implementing it on Cluster 1 and Cluster 0. We will update this page when those two systems adhere to the stated policy. In the meantime, ask us if you have any doubts.