Network Attached Storage (NAS) is an inexpensive way to provide shared mass (local-ish) storage to your group. However, without these devices backed up, they are little better than the hard drive disk arrays you might have in a desktop computer. Fortunately, many NAS manufacturers now have the ability to synchronize and backup your NAS data […]
If you find that there are files or folders missing from your RStor directory you can use Window’s “previous versions” to recover the data. This feature takes advantage of the backups that the Division of IT creates of RStor data. To restore the contents of a folder in RStor you will right click on the […]
Starting in December 2022 Google Drive will no longer provide unlimited space for colleges and universities. Instead they’re providing students, faculty, and staff with 25 gbs each. This will undoubtedly affect folks who are using Google Drive to store backups or research data. If you or your lab is currently storing data on Google Drive […]
You can back up your important folders (your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders) on your Windows PC with OneDrive PC folder backup, so they’re protected and available on other devices. Check out the following article for information on setting this up! There is now no excuse for not backing up these common file storage locations! […]
For this article’s purposes I’ll refer to Cobian Backup software as “Cobian”. This is a free tool for flat file backups. Flat file backup means that your files will be backed up as is, one at a time to a different location. You can read about Cobian and it’s history here: https://www.cobiansoft.com/cobianbackup.html Let’s begin. You […]