Protect your data

Back up your data to your own disk drive (1 TB disks can be purchased for < $100).
Keep copies of your AIPS, MIR, MIRIAD, or CASA scripts, which tend to be small, in a separate location. Reproducing data products would then be relatively simple.

Note: Data written to older media, such as DLT, EXABYTE, 9-track, 7-track, etc., may still be recoverable, but cannot be read at the CfA.

The CF's policy for backing up pool areas

The Computation Facility (CF) does NOT back up it's pool areas. It does, however, have a few NetApp based pool areas which have (very) short-term snapshots.

Please see http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/cf/services/unix/System_Resources/pool.html for details.

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