Back up data

Purpose

Backups are the last line of defence again irreparable data loss (caused by theft, compromise, hardware or software updates, human error, natural disasters, etc.) and unauthorized data alterations.  


Audience

faculty researchers Admin staff IT staff students


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Initial considerations

Determine your data's classification.

Do suitable storage solutions exist at the University that provide backups? 

Administrative data

Research data

Departmental or divisional solutions

Develop a resilient backup strategy.

  • While any backup is better than none, not all backups are made the same; it is important to plan out a resilient backup strategy to reduce the risk of data loss.


What can I do?

This section assumes that an institutional or cloud-based backup solution is not feasible or workable.

Back up to an encrypted hard drive or encrypted mobile storage device.


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Additional help

General

Contact us | Information Security (IS)

Contact us | Information Technology (IT)

Researchers

https://security.utoronto.ca/services/research-information-security-program/


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