Laptop Backups

In accordance with campus policies, the College of Fine Arts Computer Support and Information Systems group maintains a backup server for all faculty and staff computers. In order to ensure that your work computer is backed up, there are some simple things you need to do.

1. Connect your computer to the ethernet whenever you are in your office and set your location accordingly.
   An ethernet connection is much faster than wireless so your data gets backed up sooner and more regularly. If you have the CrashPlan back-up client installed, we can back up data while on uConnect, but it will take a lot longer. The uGuest connection is extremely slow, and not encrypted, and is not recommended for University faculty and staff.
2. When in your office, you should hook your computer up to a power source instead of running off the battery.
   Running your computer off a power supply when available means that your computer runs faster; it also helps with the level of sleep the computer goes into.
3. When you leave your computer unattended, either log out or leave your computer alone and let it go into a protected screen-saver mode on its own.
4. Contact CFA-CSIS immediately if you receive an email that you have not been backed up.
   Occasionally, the backup server develops a problem connecting to a client. By letting our office know as soon as you receive an alert that you have not been being backed up, you help ensure that we don’t find out the hard way – when you need data restored.