Backup and Archival of Data

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Backup to Servers
Archiving
External Hard Disks
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Backup to Servers

Your home directory on the available servers (gilford, deneb, quadra) has several TB of available disk space (2.6TB free as of Jan. 2013). You can transfer your data using programs like Rsync, WinSCP or SSHFS. See the Transfer Files Remotely section for more details on this.

Archiving

The server nootka.ccis.ualberta.ca should be used for long term storage of research data.
Again you can use methods listed at Transfer Files Remotely to transfer your data to the server.

nootka.math.ualberta.ca can also be used to give read only access to the data for others if required.

Send an email to Mark Duller at mduller@ualberta.ca to get an account on nootka.

External Hard Disks

USB (or Firewire, etc) external disks are a convenient way to backup your data. The most important thing is to make frequent backups. If the data if very important and changes often, weekly or even daily backups are recommened.

Windows
SyncToy is a simple program to backup folders and only transfer the changed files.
See this TechRepublic How-To for a quick start guide.

Mac OS X
Time Machine is the recommended backup solution.

Linux
Rsync as described in Tranfer Files Remotely is a good way to backup files.


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