
The backup server currently protects the data of several hundred SAS faculty and staff in central and departmental administrative offices. Your LSP can help you decide on and implement a solution that best meets your needs. Of course, the above approaches can be combined in a number of ways, with some data being worked with directly on the network drive and other files being copied there periodically. Your LSP can help you implement a system that will work well for you. There are a number of ways that data can be copied to the network drive in an automatic fashion, such as use of a variety of backup utilities or scripts.

#Data backup systems windows
Windows users can choose to have there "My Documents" folder located on the network drive. Applications can be configured to store files on the network drive as a default location. MS Office documents, email files, etc) on this location and opening and making changes to files from this location directly. Many users choose to work "live" from this location, storing most of their critical data (e.g. as the U: drive on a Windows machine or as another accessible volume on a Mac).

The expansion of this service is designed to ensure that all SAS faculty and eligible staff have the ability to store critical data on a system where it can be better protected against system failures and other causes of lost data.Īll SAS standing faculty and lecturers are eligible for this service. Others have had to try to implement their own solution for backing up their critical data.

Many SAS faculty and staff have not had access to any mechanism that would provide for backup of their critical data and many have important data stored on their own desktop or laptop computer, where it may be unprotected against loss due to system failure or mistaken deletion.
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For more detailed information, or to discuss how to take advantage of it, please contact your SAS Computing Local Support Provider. The information below is designed to provide general information and answer common questions about this service. This system is not intended to provide back up service for large research projects nor should it be used to store large amounts of personal use data (such a music or other non-critical personal data). This will provide a much more reliable storage location than the commonly used local hard drive of a desktop or laptop computer. This service is intended to allow individual users to store their critical data on a server operated by SAS Computing so that it can be stored reliably and backed up to tape on a nightly basis. SAS Computing supports a service to provide automated backup of critical data for all SAS faculty and to eligible SAS staff.
