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The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is pleased to announce an updated
billing algorithm that provides affordable backup and archive
protection for your data.
The new billing structure follows previous monthly billing cycles but
allows OIT to reduce the cost from $1.10/GB/month to $0.38/GB/month for
all data it retains on backup tapes. All monthly licensing costs remain
the same. Reduced costs are retroactive to October 1, 2007 and cover
all data, including the "Andrew File System" (AFS).
Registration for the Tivoli System Manager (TSM) service is restricted
to University of Maryland departmental servers and faculty/staff
workstations. Student workstations and non-University machines do not
qualify.
In addition, OIT would like to announce the availability of archive
services
using the same framework as OIT's current backup system. Archives are
kept offline in the OIT tape room or,
for an additional cost, can be sent to Iron Mountain.
OIT is able to use the same licenses from its backup
service to further reduce the archive cost when used in conjunction with
the backup service. The rate is $0.11/GB of data sent to OIT for
archiving. The data is stored on a dedicated WORM (Write Once Read Many) tape which will be
billed back, at cost, to the user. Unlike OIT's backup service, these tapes
are not kept online and thus there is no recurring monthly charge for
the space.
Product support for Legato will be dropped January 1st, 2008. All
current users will have until then to migrate to Tivoli. Data that is
backed-up to Legato will remain active for 90 days after January 1, 2008
and then the system will then be shut permanently.
Archiving of data is now available as another service offered by OIT.
Essentially, the service will consist of the tape purchase and
negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The cost will be approximately 11 cents per GB
stored on the tape.
For more information, please visit our Web site:
http://www.backups.umd.edu/
If the response is overwhelming, OIT will schedule a panel discussion
within the next couple weeks to discuss this personally with
you and how it affects your data retention.
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