Automatic Backup of Managed Workstations and Servers¶

Your data is backed up on a regular schedule. The last 30 days (or even more, on a best effort basis) are backed up on our backup server and are accessible by the user to restore files. This includes

• Backup of Homedirectories
• Backup of Groupdrives
• Backup of Webshares
• Backup of Managed Workstations

Access Backups to Restore Data¶

NB: The following refers to the backups of the home directories on managed workstations. The backups of non-managed computers can be restored from the BackupBox and BackupBox-Lab web interface.

Most of these backups can be restored by yourself. Connect the network share with the backups and simply copy the files to where you need them.

• Restore

Restoring Emails from the imap folder is a bit more tricky. Please get in touch with us to have emails restored from backup.

Backup Folder Structure¶

Your personal directory contains 2 subdirectories, each containing folders with the individual backups organized by date and time.

  $USER/
   |
   |--2014.09.01_210002/    Homedirectory of September, 1st
   |--2014.09.02_210002/           "      of September, 2nd
   |...

  groupdata/
   |
   |--my_share_1
      |--2014.09.01_210002/    my_share_1 of September, 1st
      |--2014.09.02_210002/           "   of September, 2nd
      |...
   |--my_share_2
      |--2014.09.01_210002/    my_share_2 of September, 1st
      |--2014.09.02_210002/           "   of September, 2nd
      |...
   |...

Backups are typically done during the night - so the folder named 2014.09.01_210002 contains data of September 1st 2014 at 21:00:02.