Backups
Overview
We provide backup service on a best effort basis, and make no guarantees regarding data recovery. It is the user's responsibility to make copies of important data. We suggest copying to a variety of media, to reduce the risk of a single point of failure. We provide a CD/DVD writer and will assist users as required.
We back up user home directories, usually nightly. Directories with names of the form *.NOBACKUP are not backed up. You can help ease the strain on our poor tape drive by putting large files you do not need backed up in such directories. Various temporary directories, such as web browser caches, may not be backed up. Please don't store important data in /tmp or /var/tmp without a personal backup plan, as we do not copy them to tape, and machines fail regularly.
Restores
Files must have existed during one of our backup runs to be picked up by out backup system.
Please use our file restore form to request that a file be restored from our backup tapes.
We do not hold any data for more than one year.