"How often is my site backed up?"

Backups are performed once a day using a three tier structure.

Triple file backup of your data is offered using the following processes:

1. An online mirror drive that can be accessed anytime ("/backup").
2. A compressed archive to a separate system volume.
3. An off-site tape archive.

You can access the online mirror drive directly via "/backup/YOURNAME/". If you want to access the backup copy of "/usr/home/YOURNAME/www/htdocs/index.html" it will be accessible as "/backup/YOURNAME/www/htdocs/index.html".

You can also use the getback utility at any shell prompt. The getback utility will search the index of backup files and list all files matching your search pattern that are available. This includes files on the online mirror drive, the compressed archive and on tape.

The search path can be specified as either an absolute or relative path. For example:

% getback /usr/home/YOURNAME/www/htdocs/index.html

% cd ~/www/htdocs
% getback index.html

The absolute path and the relative path above resolve to the same file in the htdocs directory. Getback will list the available backups of this file that you may request a restore from. Mirror drive and compressed backups are restored automatically as you wait. Restoring files from off-site tape back up are manually processed and incur a nominal restore fee.