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| ====== Backups ====== | ====== Backups ====== | ||
| - | The CS department now hosts user data on ZFS, a filesystem that includes native support for snapshots. We take snapshots of all of our partitions every 6 hours, giving us 4 snapshots every day. These snapshots are stored locally as well as backed up to an offsite location. Users can access the snapshots of their partition, here you can find backups of your home directory. | + | The CS department hosts user data on ZFS, a filesystem that includes native support for snapshots. We take snapshots of all of our partitions every 12 hours, giving us 2 snapshots every day. These snapshots are stored locally as well as backed up to an offsite location. Users can access the snapshots of their partition, here you can find backups of your home directory. |
| So for example, if my home directory is ''%%/zf15/ktm5j%%'' then the snapshots for my partition live in ''%%/zf15/.zfs%%'' | So for example, if my home directory is ''%%/zf15/ktm5j%%'' then the snapshots for my partition live in ''%%/zf15/.zfs%%'' | ||