Guidelines
The primary goal of the combination disc image/backup solution is disaster recovery. In a situation where a hardware or software failure requires all software to be reloaded from scratch, proper planning can make recovery quick and easy. The recovery procedure is:
- Email laptop-support@cs.utexas.edu to inform us of the problem and set up a time to have your hard drive reimaged.
- Connect to the backup server to restore home directory.
- Reinstall your personal applications that are not included in the image.
Keeping these things in mind will make recovering from disaster easier:
- Be mindful of what you keep in your home directory. The more data that you back up, the longer it will take to restore from backup in an emergency.
- Keep installation media for any applications you've installed on your computer. Restoring from a backup will not reinstall your applications.