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We provide several backup options for your CIMS data.

Home Directory Backups (/home)

The Systems Group maintain tape backups of your home directory.  We also maintain up to 2 nights of snapshots on disk.  These snapshots are accessible in the new and old directories under ~/.zfs/snapshot.  The new directory is a snapshot of your home directory taken the night before (or early morning of the same day), and the old directory contains the snapshot taken two nights ago.  If you have just changed/deleted a file and would like to recover a version from up to two days ago, you may find it in one of the snapshot directories.  Feel free to request a restore of older files from tape archives.

Data Directory Backups (/data)

The Systems Group maintains a nightly backup of your data directory.  If you have just changed/deleted a file and would like to recover the version from the previous backup you could be in luck.  Feel free to request a restore of older files from nightly backups.

Laptop Data Backups

The Systems Group maintains a laptop data backup system available to eligible CIMS affiliates.  If interested in this service request laptop backup access.