Data security

The same data safety and recovery options of the previous system are still available.

Versions

To access the versions of a file, in the right-click menu click in Details then on Versions. The system keeps the 10 most recent versions of each file, as well as a version from each of the last few days.

Trash bin

All files deleted from your personal space will land on the Trashbin and stay there for 4 weeks. Admins of a project can also see the trashbin of their project spaces, as described in Projects

Backup

CERNBox keeps multiple backups of your data. Concretely, backups are kept for the following periods:

• 7 daily backups (a snapshot per day for the last seven days where you made modifications)
• 5 weekly backups (a snapshot per week for the last five weeks where you made modifications)
• 6 monthly backups (a snapshot per month for the last six months where you made modifications)

Note thus that these snapshot do not need to be consecutive: if you modify files on your CERNBox only once per week, we will have seven daily snapshots from seven different weeks.

Upon leaving CERN, we will delete all your old back-ups, and we save one final snapshot that we keep indefinitely.

In case you would like to restore files from your back-up, please create a SNOW ticket.