Without backups, students can lose important papers, faculty can lose critical research and staff can lose documents that they've been preparing for months. Backup regularly and protect yourself from data loss.

Backing up means saving your files to multiple locations. Files on the Nicholas network—those saved to your home directory or to shared network directories—are backed up regularly, but to be sure you can recover critical data you should save regularly and backup to disk (external hard drives, CDs or USB flash drives) or other server space.

Disks occasionally go bad making it difficult or impossible to retrieve files. Disks also get lost. Always save important files in at least two places.