Posts Tagged disk
External Hard Drive Storage
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
External hard drives are often an inexpensive and fast way to make a backup of a computer. The drawback to external hard drives is that data is infrequently backed up, and the external hard drive is often stored in the same location as the original data and subject to the same hazards. External hard drives [...]
Operating System Imaging
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
OIT provides a service for Research computers connected to Scientific equipment. Once a computer has been configured by a vendor, OIT will capture a full “image” or backup of the Operating System on the computer that can be recovered should the hard drive ever fail. The benefit of having a full backup is in the [...]