[Rdap] back-ups for Cloud storage

Mon Jul 15 11:50:50 EDT 2019

Dear RDAPers

I have a very basic question or at least I think it is, so please bear with me.

We are transitioning our cloud storage from Box to One Drive.  I am finding that many researchers are working only in the cloud and do not have local copies on their machines.  So they only have the one copy, and what back-up Box provides which is not always reliable.  Also our IT department is not really encourage people to make back-ups, as they believe this transition will go smoothly.  I asked our Box support contact, and he asked me why I would even want to know this.

The workflow to back-up from a PC to the cloud and an external hard drive is more straight forward, and backing up cloud storage is the more tricky part.  And we do not have a service like Globus to be able to send large amounts of data.

What I think to recommend is to take it in chunks.  Through the browser, Box only allows for a max of 15 GB per download.  If they set up Box Drive they can copy over more, but it will take a substantial amount of time.  This is a slow and labor intensive way to do this.  Also I am not a coder.

So I am looking for detailed workflows for back-up from cloud to external drive/PC that is efficient and will help these researchers protect their data.  If you have one, can you share it with me?

Cheers,
Amy Koshoffer (she/her)
Assistant Director of Research & Data Services | UC Libraries
[orcid small]ORCID 0000-0001-8130-103X<http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8130-103X>

Email:    amy.koshoffer at uc.edu<mailto:amy.koshoffer at uc.edu>  (preferred)
Tel:         (513) 556-1310
Researcher Services<https://libraries.uc.edu/research/research-data-services.html> (Data, GIS, Informatics)

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