Backing up » History » Version 4
Steve Welburn, 2012-09-28 01:20 PM
| 1 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h1. Backing up |
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| 3 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h2. Why back up your data ? |
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| 5 | 1 | Steve Welburn | * Hard disks die |
| 6 | 1 | Steve Welburn | * Portable devices can be lost or broken |
| 7 | 1 | Steve Welburn | * Disasters happen |
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| 9 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h2. How to back up data |
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| 11 | 1 | Steve Welburn | The core principle is that backup copies of data should be stored in a different location to the main copy. |
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| 13 | 1 | Steve Welburn | If you delete your local copy of the data then the primary copy will be the original backup... is that copy backed up anywhere ? |
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| 15 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Suitable locations for backups are: |
| 16 | 1 | Steve Welburn | * A firesafe |
| 17 | 1 | Steve Welburn | * A network copy |
| 18 | 1 | Steve Welburn | ** An network drive e.g. provided by the institution |
| 19 | 1 | Steve Welburn | ** Internet storage (in the cloud) |
| 20 | 1 | Steve Welburn | ** A data repository - this could be a public thematic / institutional repository for publishing completed research datasets, or an internal repository for archiving datasets during research |
| 21 | 2 | Steve Welburn | * A portable device / portable media which you keep somewhere other than under your desk |
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| 23 | 3 | Steve Welburn | The best backup is the one you do! |
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| 25 | 3 | Steve Welburn | Backing up on external devices means that you need access to the device... network drives and "internal" backups are usually more available. e.g. backup every time you're in the office / lab or at home. |
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| 27 | 4 | Steve Welburn | h2. Can't I just put it in the cloud ? |
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| 29 | 4 | Steve Welburn | Google's "terms"http://www.google.com/policies/terms/: |
| 30 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. *Your Content in our Services* |
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| 32 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours. |
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| 34 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services. |