Shells backup

We make full backups of all the home directories to an off-site server every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5:40am local time.

To restore a file from this backup to your account you can use the backup command. You can also use the same command to back up a file at any time.

Usage:

backup -r /home/username/file.txt restores file.txt to the version found in the backup. (option -r is the same as --restore)

backup -b /home/username/file.txt saves file.txt to the backup server. (option -b is the same as --backup)

If you want to check the last date and time a backup was made, you can check at the backup webinterface.

Known bugs:

Filenames with spaces aren't handled properly yet. They are backed up in the periodical backups, but they can't be restored automatically. If you need such a file restored please ask one of our staff members to restore it manually.