{"id":387,"date":"2010-09-16T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:59:36","slug":"backup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/faq\/backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University&#8217;s recommended backup option for faculty is <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Royal Drive<\/strong><\/span>, which you can access either via the web (<a href=\"http:\/\/royaldrive.scranton.edu\" target=\"_blank\">royaldrive.scranton.edu<\/a>) or by using a <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/training\/qtjune09.html\">desktop client<\/a>.\u00a0 Vince Yanusauskas has written up a Quick Start guide for Royal Drive 7.0 (available in <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/training\/Royal_Drive-7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF format<\/a>) and also offers regular trainings on Royal Drive for all University faculty and staff members.\u00a0 Royal Drive is secure (files are encrypted), robust (it&#8217;s backed up regularly), and is freely available to University faculty.\u00a0 Storage space is initially limited, but <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2010\/10\/05\/how-to-request-more-space-on-royal-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can request more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are other options for backup, though many have disadvantages.\u00a0 What some faculty use on campus for backup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>External hard drive<\/li>\n<li>CDs\/DVDs (warning &#8211; the lifespan of CD\/DVD media is essentially unknown)<\/li>\n<li>Thumb drives (same problem as above)<\/li>\n<li>Third party backup services &#8211; like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jungledisk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle Disk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carbonite<\/a>, etc &#8211; though these may involve fees depending on the level of service and amount of space you need<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using an external hard drive, don&#8217;t forget that <strong>you need to be especially careful if you have sensitive data<\/strong> (e.g., anything covered by FERPA) to store.\u00a0 The University&#8217;s Information Security department advises faculty to use full-disk encryption (check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TrueCrypt<\/a> if your external backup device doesn&#8217;t come with full-disk encryption built in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University&#8217;s recommended backup option for faculty is Royal Drive, which you can access either via the web (royaldrive.scranton.edu) or by using a desktop client.\u00a0 Vince Yanusauskas has written up a Quick Start guide for Royal Drive 7.0 (available in PDF format) and also offers regular trainings on Royal Drive for all University faculty and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}