Backup & Restore | Backups

• Backup users data and settings

• If your computer is connected to IT systems (WISMAIN\JAMF), the backup application will automatically be installed.
• All new computers install in the WIT lab will get the backup application preinstalled.

• Regular backup of your computer.
• Recovering data in case of theft or destruction of your computer.
• Recovering data in case of accidental deletion.
• Restoring information when replacing computers, transferring data from the old computer to the new one.
• Ability to return to previous versions of the files in the backup in case of deletion or encryption of information (ransom attacks).
• Ability to add personal folders to backup jobs.

• Server data backup.
• Server use only.

• Registration by department administration in IS required.
• Installation and management by IT Department only.

Technical Info

• Latest version backed up in (typically) nightly backup cycle, with a maximum of 10 recent (last active) copies stored over a period of 30 or 90 days (depending on period specified in IS registration). The last active copies of files deleted at the source are kept for 548 days.
• Payment is for incremental (new) data transferred to backup during a monthly billing cycle only, not for cumulative data stored on the server.

• WEXAC/StorWIS data backup.

• Registration by department administration in IS required.
• Installation and management by IT Department only.

Technical Info

StorWIS

• Latest version backed up in (typically) nightly backup cycle, with a maximum of 10 recent (last active) copies stored over a period of 30 days. The last active copies of files deleted at the source are kept for 548 days.
• PAYG (Pay As You Go) payment, with charges based on cumulative data stored on server.

WEXAC

• Latest version backed up in (typically) nightly backup cycle, with a maximum of 3 recent (last active) copies stored over a period of 30 days. The last active copies of files deleted at the source are kept for 10 years.
• PAYG (Pay As You Go) payment, with charges based on cumulative data stored on server.

• Backup of Lab computers including its Operating System and Software
• Image based backup (Operating System and Software)

• Installed and managed by IT only

• Image can be restored to another PC that is not the original one
• Multiple Snapshots can be created per-user settings

• Long-term retention of archive files and folders, for subsequent retrieval or recovery

• Self service
• The archive is part of the WEXAC service
• To access it, you will need to register to the WEXAC service and access the path: \\data.wexac.weizmann.ac.il\lab_name-arc
• To trigger an archive, you will need to copy files/folders into your <lab_name-arc> path

• Only files over 5 MBs in size will be transferred to the archive; Small files must be packed (using Zip or similar software) into a single large file to meet the minimum size requirement
• Your files/folders will be transferred to the archive after seven days, and will occupy disk space until then
• Beyond the seven days, files will be displayed with their original names, but will actually be stub files. A stub file does not store the original file content,  and is in fact a link to the full archived file.
• Accessing actual file content requires a retrieve operation from the archive. This is done via a Copy/Open file operation, with files retrieved from the archive after they are opened
• The path  \\data.wexac.weizmann.ac.il\lab_name-arc quota is 2 TBs
• Archive is for 10 years