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Before proceeding, you must read and agree to the following UIC
policies regarding our network backup service:
- ADSM is offered only to individual UIC faculty and staff members for use
on their own primary, exclusively used, personal computer or UNIX
workstation located on the UIC campus.
- It is not for students.
- Personal ADSM accounts may not be used for any type of server or
multi-user workstation.
- Servers include LAN file servers, web servers, or any kind of group,
departmental, lab, or class server.
Multi-user workstations include public lab personal computers or any
type of machine routinely used by more than one person.
- The administrators for these systems are responsible for making their
own arrangements for backup.
- If you are the administrator of such a server system and you would like to
explore the use of ADSM to back up your server, send email to datasave@uic.edu.
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Each eligible person may have only one ADSM account and each ADSM account may only be used to back up one computer.
- Due to technical limitations, if you back up more than one machine or more than one operating system on a single machine with a single ADSM
account,
YOU MAY BE UNABLE TO RESTORE SOME OR ALL OF YOUR DATA SHOULD THE NEED ARISE.
- Specifically multiple operating systems running on a
single machine (such as with "dual-boot") are considered to be multiple machines.
- While a one-time switch from one computer to another is alright, if you consistently back up two or more machines to one account,
the ACCC reserves the right to lock your ADSM account.
This most often happens when you get a new computer and fail to
remove your ADSM account from your old computer.
- If you have a valid need for an additional ADSM account, send your request to datasave@uic.edu.
- Valid reasons include having two offices and having a dual-boot configuration
on a single machine.
- Only your personal data files can be backed up.
- In general, on Windows, this means only the C:\ drive and on Macs, the / ( Macintosh HD )
filesystem.
- Specifically, you may not back up:
- the Windows System State or System Object, or
- any removable drive such as CD, DVD, or a USB plugable drive.
- If you need to have another drive backed up, for instance, if you have a Windows machine and your personal data files on
both your C:\ and D:\ drives, send an email message to datasave@uic.edu explaining this and we will allow it for your nodeID.
- Backups:
- A copy of the current version of the files that you do not delete or change will be kept as long as
the file remains on your computer.
- Files that you change: Up to seven versions of files that you change will be kept for up to 30 days.
This means that if you change a file daily, the oldest version
available for restore will be only 7 days old, but if you stop changing it, then each of the last 7 versions will be kept for 30 days.
- Files that you delete: A backup copy of the files that you delete will be kept
for 60 days. After 30 days, only the last backed up copy of the file will be available.
- Large restores (such as an entire disk drive) may involve a substantial
amount of time, possibly several hours, depending upon the speed of your
network connection.
- Network Connections:
- Given the large volume of data that is transferred when backing up and
restoring data, ADSM can only be used with directly-wired ethernet or the UIC-Wireless network on the UIC Chicago campus.
- It is not available for the Rockford or Peoria campuses.
- It cannot be used from off-campus or from any type of outside
connection, including DSL, cable, or the ACCC dialin lines, even if
connecting from a location on the Chicago campus.
- Laptops may be backed up when they are physically carried onto the
Chicago campus and connected to the UIC network, either wired or
wireless. You can request to have the automatic backup on a laptop to run during the day, so that you can take it home with you at night; send email to datasave@uic.edu.
- A fixed IP address is not necessary -- DHCP is OK, such as you receive when using UIC-Wireless.
- Abandoned Data:
- The UIC ADSM system is not an archive system.
It's only purpose is to back up data that is currently on your computer, in case of
accidental deletion or hardware failure.
It is not for long-term storage of data you no longer wish to keep on your computer.
- If any whole computer or individual
"filespace" (Windows drive, or Mac/Linux filesystem) is not backed up for a period of 120 days,
it will be considered to have been abandoned.
We will attempt to contact you via email, giving you two choices: 1) Resume backups, or
2) We will delete the backed-up data.
- It is possible for backed-up data to appear abandoned, when it is not. This can happen if
you use the GUI client and only make partial backups of some directories, not all of them.
You must make a complete backup of the entire filespace, either by using the
automatic scheduler, or by selecting only whole drives/filesystems.
- For new installations, you agree to use the most recent version of the TSM Client
Software for your computer system, as listed on the next page.
- All IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client software is licensed software,
copyright IBM Corporation, and is subject to license agreements both
between IBM and UIC, and between IBM and you.
- You will be given an
opportunity to read and agree to the License Agreement between IBM and
you at the time you install the Client Software.
Exceptions to this policy may be granted based on need. To request an exception,
send email to datasave@uic.edu.
To indicate your agreement to the above policies, and proceed to download the
client software, click one of the following:
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