Backing up your data

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Backing up your Data

As a Centre College faculty, staff or student, it is important for you to back-up your data. We also recommend that your data be stored on Centre's approved cloud storage location and not directly on your computer.

Centre College's ITS Backup Policy states:

"It does not cover data held by individuals, on local servers managed by departments or individual PCs in faculty or staff offices, or data stored on removable devices owned by departments".  

This means that ITS does not backup your desktop, laptop, and/or tablets. It is the responsibility of the faculty, staff, and students to back up their systems.  ITS encourages people to save their documents to the Centre College approved cloud storage, which is Office 365 and OneDrive.

• Check out the OneDrive documentation page to help you get started

• View the full ITS Backup Policy, (located on CentreNet).  Note: You must be logged into CentreNet before you can view the policies on this page. 

Options for backing up your files

Keeping your data in an approved cloud storage location is a good first step. However, cloud storage is not a back-up.  There are ways to back-up your data and we've outlined a few recommendations below. 

• External Hard Drive - purchase an external hard drive and use this device to back-up your data.

• Dropbox Backup - Dropbox has a paid Backup service that you can use to backup your files and then easily restore these files if something goes wrong.
  
  

Consider the 3-2-1 backup rule, which is a data protection strategy.  By backing up your data in multiple locations, on a regular basis, this will help protect your data in case you experience hardware failures, computer crashes, or your device gets lost or stolen.  Want to know more about backing up your data, watch this video that explains why it's important to follow the 3-2-1 rule.