Data Backup and Recovery

Data stored on individual workstations, whether desktop or portable, is vulnerable to hard drive crashes, viruses and even theft of the device. To provide additional protection to the University community, Information Technology offers a workstation disaster recovery service. This service is currently available for Macintosh 10.4 or 10.5 SCL and Windows SCL workstations.

The system is designed for disaster recovery purposes such as a hard drive crash, virus infection, theft or malicious activity. The DRS is not intended to be used for long term archival storage. You should always make copies of your most important work prior to making changes in case of human error. To help prevent our storage servers from being filled with unnecessary archival data please use CD-R or DVD-R media for information you plan to keep indefinitely.

Activating the Backup Service
Click here to register your computer for the Disaster Recovery Service.

Cancel Registration
If you would like a computer removed from the Disaster Recovery Service, please contact the Help Desk.

Data Backup and Recovery FAQ
Page of frequently asked questions.

Contact Information
If you have problems or questions with the backup service, please contact the Help Desk.