For Desktops in Garching
Backups and Archives for Desktops and Laptops in Garching
Windows
Backups
You can check the backups of a Windows PC. If the last backup is old or there is no backup at all, please inform the IT staff in your department.
Backups of Windows PCs at IPP Garching and MPCDF are done automatically every day. By default, all local drives get backed up, including any USB drives attached to the PC at backup time. You might notice that your PC reacts more slowly while the backup is running, but for most PCs it usually takes under 15 minutes to complete.
For desktop PCs, the backup is done in the night, so please leave the computer running every night or at least one night per week.
For laptops, the backup is done around noon. If your laptop is not connected often to the network, it might miss the backup window. You can start a backup per hand any time by starting the TSM program and choosing “Actions -> Backup domain” from the menu bar.
If you need to recover files from the backup, follow these steps.
Some files are automatically excluded from the backup. Here is a list of them.
For files which still exist on your PC, all versions of the last 60 days are kept in the backup, so you can recover any of them. In addition, for a file which has been deleted from your PC, the newest version is kept in the backup for 2 years.
Archives
To archive data from your Windows PC, use an scp or sftp client (for example WinSCP, FileZilla, pscp, psftp) to connect to the machine archive.rzg.mpg.de and log in with your Kerberos user id and password.
Your HOME folder will be /ghi/r/<initial>/<userid> (for example: /ghi/r/s/smith). Everything you store there will be automatically copied to tape. And everything you read from there will automatically retrieved from tape, which will imply some delay of typically betweeen 1 and 10 minutes.
Linux
Backups
Backups of Linux desktops and laptops at IPP Garching and MPCDF are configured only on request. If you have a Linux machine you want to include in the backup, please contact the helpdesk.
Archives
To archive data from your Linux machine, use scp, sftp or rsync to connect to the machine archive.rzg.mpg.de and log in with your Kerberos user id and password.
Your HOME directory will be /ghi/r/<initial>/<userid> (for example: /ghi/r/s/smith). Everything you store there will be automatically copied to tape. And everything you read from there will automatically retrieved from tape, which will imply some delay of typically betweeen 1 and 10 minutes.
Mac
Backups
Backups of Macintosh machines at IPP Garching and MPCDF are configured only on request. If you have a Mac that you want to include in the backup, please contact the helpdesk.
Archives
If you have an scp or sftp client on your Mac, you can archive files by connecting to the machine archive.rzg.mpg.de and logging in with your Kerberos user id and password.
Your HOME directory will be /ghi/r/<initial>/<userid> (for example: /ghi/r/s/smith). Everything you store there will be automatically copied to tape. And everything you read from there will automatically retrieved from tape, which will imply some delay of typically betweeen 1 and 10 minutes.