CrashPlan
Research data is essential to you and the university. Corrupted or lost data can be slightly inconvenient or ruin years of research effort.
What is CrashPlan?
CrashPlan is an application that you install on your laptop or desktop to continuously protect your most important data when and where it is being created without impacting your workflow. It can help protect you from data loss, such as inadvertent deletion or overwriting of a file. CrashPlan can also help you recover “good versions” of your data if you are the victim of malware or ransomware.
CrashPlan is a secure, data backup service for UCSB Researchers. Install It on your laptop or desktop to continuously protect your most important data when and where it is being created without impacting your workflow.
Why should you use it?
CrashPlan can recover one or all files from a device in minutes in case of file corruption, device failure, site disaster, or simple human error. Flexible restore options let administrators push download jobs to devices, or allow you to initiate your own restores using the CrashPlan app on your device.
Included Features:
- Continuous backup: CrashPlan automatically backs up your data every 15 minutes.
- Secure backup: CrashPlan uses industry-standard encryption to protect your data.
- Cross-platform backup: CrashPlan can back up your data to any device, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Easy restore: CrashPlan makes restoring your data from the cloud easy.
How to get a CrashPlan account?
This service is being made available to UCSB Researchers (Faculty, Students, Postdocs, and Staff engaged in research). The yearly license fee is $30/person (4 devices per person), and the Office of Research and UCOP are both exploring options to subsidize the cost.
Contact your IT Help Desk to ask them to learn more about your options, and point them at help@grit.ucsb.edu if they need more information.