Backups

In addition to the 1.5 PB of primary storage, the cluster has an additional 1.0 PB of capacity dedicated to storing backups.

Important

Storage is expensive, and syncing backups is time consuming, so please read the Data Storage & Management Policy and ensure your data is kept in the appropriate locations.

Retention policies

New or changed data is synced nightly to our backup server - delorean - and then snapshots are taken and kept for as long as the policy for that data dictates.

Location	Policy
/mnt/shared/projects	30 daily snapshots and 18 monthly snapshots
$HOME	30 daily snapshots

Restoring backups

Please Contact Us with all queries regarding restoring data from backup.