Your data is encrypted in transit and 'at rest' in the CrashPlan cloud. This includes intellectual property, grades, tenure and promotion information, social security numbers, institutional financial data, HIPAA data, and more. The service is secure and has been approved by Dartmouth’s ITC security team for the transfer and storage of all Dartmouth data classification levels. Your data will be encrypted and stored on a CrashPlan cloud server. Our instance of CrashPlan is a cloud backup service licensed through Internet2. How much data may I backup to CrashPlan?Īs a general rule, Code42 CrashPlan might not perform as expected on computers with more than 2 TB data or several million files. If you are moving data from an existing computer on which CrashPlan is installed to a new computer, your Technology Support Specialist can assist you with replacing the new device while retaining your existing backup archive. Your Technology Support Specialist can provide guidance. We encourage you to regularly back up your home and personal devices using a reliable backup service. CrashPlan is licensed for Dartmouth-owned devices only.

Can I have CrashPlan installed on my home computer? The license does not apply to department or laboratory computers. Under our current license for active Arts & Sciences faculty, your Client Technology Consultant will install CrashPlan on up to four (4) Dartmouth-owned desktop or laptop devices used solely by the faculty member.

Once CrashPlan is installed on my computer, can I install it on other computers? Please submit a request using the ITC Services Portal page. How can I get CrashPlan installed on my computer? Who can use CrashPlan?ĬrashPlan is currently available to all tenure and tenure-track Arts & Sciences faculty at Dartmouth, for use on their Dartmouth-owned computer, free of charge.

Once installed on your computer it runs silently in the background, regularly backing up your data to secure and encrypted cloud storage. CrashPlan is an automated desktop cloud-based backup service.

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