![]() One last bit of business remains: telling the computer to back itself up without any intervention on your part. If it does, you have now backed up your files. It’s going to be slow, but it should work. Open it up and see if you can open your files. You should see what looks like a new disk appear on your desktop. For me, it’s the file called “backup.sparseimage”. Double click on your backup on the network. Is it done yet? If so, let’s check to make sure everything worked. We’ll take care of them and let ITS worry about the operating system and Microsoft Word. These are the files that can’t be replaced if your computer is stolen or goes kablooey. We’re leaving things out because space on the server is limited. The operating system and programs, by contrast, won’t be copied. That means everything in your account, and any other account on your machine, will be copied. Our answer to the third question tells SuperDuper! to copy all of the user accounts on your hard drive. The only way to keep the names the same, among other things, is to put them all in the one big file. We’re doing that rather than simply copying the files because the computer that runs the server has slightly different rules for its files than your computer does. This big file will look like a disk to an Apple computer. When we answered the second question, we told SuperDuper! to save all of your files in one big file on the server. This is going to take a while, so let me explain what we just did. Under the “Go” menu, select “Connect to Server” (circled in red below). You will see these menus across the top: Finder, File, Edit, View, Go, Window, and Help. Connect to your storage space on the networkĬlick on the desktop. A credit card number, preferably your own.ġ.Usually, this is your initials plus some combination of 47s it is the part of your email address before the sign. Setting up the software to do the copying.Connecting to your storage space on the network.Doing so will cost you about $30 and 20 minutes of your time. If you follow my instructions, you will be able to accept computer failures or theft with a measure of equanimity. Furthermore, the copies are going to go to a place where they can’t be stolen or harmed: a networked computer disk maintained by professional computer people. We’re going to set up your computer to copy your files every day, without any intervention on your part. Some of you even made back up copies … uh, four or five months ago, right? Of course, I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. You can get a new computer, but you can’t replace your files. One or the other will almost certainly happen to you. Why? Hard drives fail and computers are stolen. It’s addressed to faculty at Pomona who use Apple computers.* * Students might start with this page to discover the differences. This page is about how to back up your computer to a disk on the Pomona College network. Buy one, leave it plugged in, and do regular backups with SuperDuper or Apple’s Time Machine. They all ensure that your files are stored apart from your physical work computer.įinally, physical disk drives are dirt cheap. There are many more services in this category they all have very low costs and typically have a free tier of service. And if you have the very newest (10.10) version of the Mac operating system, you can use a service called iCloud Disk that is run by Apple. It does the same thing (with minor differences, I expect) only without meaningful limits. The college paid for a similar service called Box. ![]() You have probably heard of Dropbox it is free for a limited amount of storage. There are also a variety of synchronization services that you should consider: they ensure that different computers all have the same files. ![]() If you don’t see a little house with a grid of squares in the upper right side of your computer screen, call ITS and request CrashPlan. CrashPlan backs up all your files all the time to a safe location. They now install a program called CrashPlan on your work machine (I would give you a link to an ITS page describing this, but I can’t find one). This method has been superseded by our friends at ITS. How to back up your computer How to back up your computer to the Pomona network Update November 2014
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