Life Sciences
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Backup


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November 2, 2009 ~>
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All servers are currently processing the 6 month interval full backups. This will delay your regular backup schedule.
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Overview

Installing the Retrospect Client

Request Backup Activation

Report a Problem

Request Data to be Restored


General information

UIUC Life Sciences' Office of Information Technology offers backups for all computers affiliated with Life Sciences. We support backup for MacOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems. We can also support most Unix systems with a seperate backup system.

Retrospect box Four servers running Retrospect Backup poll and copy data from each client computer daily.

MacOS and Windows clients use the TCP/IP protocol to transfer data. Overall, backups achieve throughput of over 250 MB/min over our switched 100 Mbps ethernet. AIT Libraries