Backups
Policy
Backups are run as follows:
- Weekly starting Friday night: /nfs/home/
- Quarterly on the first day of the quarter: /nfs/db, /nfs/store
- Never: /nfs/work, Laptops, Desktops
- No other files are backed up routinely.
- You are encouraged to use a USB drive on your desktop or laptop for supplemental backups of key files.
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.
Note
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.
Restore
To have files restored from backup, please write to the sysadmins, stating file/directory name, the approximate time of when it was created in the form you want restored and when that copy was deleted or damaged.