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PANIC (pan•ik): n. 1. a sudden overpowering terror, often affecting several people at once. 2. a state of unreasonable terror or anxiety over anticipated events. 3. a state that a UNIX kernel enters when critical consistency checks fail and the kernel can no longer operate normally. 4. Physics and Astronomy Network Infrastructure and Computing: your solution to 1, 2, and 3.
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Laptop Backups |
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
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PANIC is glad to be able to offer this new backup service to any Physics user with a PANIC-setup Windows laptop.
This backup service allows you to regularly save a copy of any important data stored in C:\BackMeUp to a secure server. The advantages of this over our old backup program BASK, or over doing your own backups, include: - Backups are performed on-demand. Perform one as often or as seldom as you like.
- Files are stored on a secure server, physically separate from your laptop.
- It's significantly faster than BASK.
- It's faster than some USB hard disks!
- It features a GUI which shows backup progress.
- The ability to do backups from anywhere with a network connection (no longer limited to on-campus).
- Each backup is archived and 30+ backups are kept. This allows retrieval of multiple versions of files that may change often.
- Friendly email reminders if a backup has not been performed recently.
Please email PANIC if you'd like this setup on your aptop. The installation takes ~20 mins and the duration of the initial backup depends on the volume of data on the PC. Subsequent backups depend on he number of changed files but generally take about 5 or 10 minutes.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 November 2007 )
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