CrashPlan is a cloud backup solution available to CAES units.
CrashPlan backs up data automatically, with no user effort or intervention required, and enables Departmental IT staff to quickly and easily restore data. CrashPlan is ideally suited for desktops and small file workloads that do not change often. It is not designed to back up busy servers.
To support the CAES CrashPlan service, the CAES Dean's Office, along with other key CAES staff, maintains a dedicated CrashPlan Instance used to delegate administration, including backup and restore functionality, to departmental IT units.
Features/Benefits
- Endpoint and cloud encryption to ensure security
- Trickle-based backup that will not burden networks or firewalls. Initial backups may take several hours or days, but afterwards, continuous and incremental backups are conducted without user intervention
- Cross-platform: Available for Mac, Windows, Solaris and Linux
- Departmental administration of backups keys for ease of recovery
- Ability to backup four computer with one license
Each licensed user can back-up four different devices.
All restores of files not your own are covered by PPM 310-24, and without the user's consent, the non-consensual process PPM 310-24 (V)(B) Access without consent must be followed.
Getting Started
- Please follow the "How do I enroll my unit into the CAES CrashPlan service?" section of the FAQ