The need for backup on campus is very high, especially since department-wide backup service is a non-trivial service for many departments to implement.

Because of the need for a backup system, the Computer Science department has implemented the Free/Open-Source backup system called Bacula. The Bacula system has an impressive feature set and is very flexible for backups across multiple platforms. The current Bacula system doesn't support

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Windows 10

Bacula can make backups of the files on your system on a regular basis. These backups can allow you to recover files should be become corrupted or missing due to a critical system failure. Note that due to various circumstances, some files/folders are excluded from being backed up.

Bacula is not a file versioning or management system. It cannot stop you from making changes to files you don't want to make, or accidentally deleting files. Even with a backup system in place, caution should still be exercised when working with important and critical files.

Bacula also cannot make you toast in the morning.