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The structbio admins back up your files nightly. If you delete something accidentally, you can go get the backed-up version from them. But do it quickly, because the backups are not intended as archives, and I don't know how long they keep them (a few days, weeks?). For long-term storage, it is your responsibility to archive your own data permanently.

Simple and quick:

1) Get set up as an scdbackup user on "squid":

Bring your DVDs (or CDs) to the red computer in the structbio graphics lab.
(You might need the help of a structbio admin to run this command.)
(Walter keeps blank DVDs in his office.)

	$ /export/squid/scdbackup/ADD_USER
	

2) Backup all the files in your home directory:

	$ sdvdbackup_home 
	     -OR-
	$ scdbackup_home
	

The command is in /usr/local/bin, in case that's not in your path.

OR: Backup *some* of the files in your home directory:

(Replace "user" with your username)

	$ sdvdbackup /home/user/data /home/user/projects 
	/home/user/presentations -not /home/user/projects/tmpfiles 
	

The program will group all your files into chunks that will fit onto your media (CDs hold about 650MB, DVDs 4.7GB), breaking up big files if necessary, generate (virtual?) ISO images from them, ask you to insert the discs, and burn the data to disc, along with an index and a program called ASKME to search the index.

There are copious instructions and examples at: http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html