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CrashPlan is available to UC system personnel at ~$30/Person/Year with 4 desktop/laptop devices per person.  No you can't use one license to cover 4 devices for 4 people, it doesn't provide backups of phones, tablets, etc but it is essentially "unlimited" in terms of storage footprint.

To get set up with CrashPlan Backup you will first need to submit a request to have an account set up here


Original Email from the Office of Research:

UC Santa Barbara Office of Research

Interim Director of Research IT for the Office of Research and new service offerings to researchers at UCSB

Sent on behalf of Research IT.
The Research Division has formed a new Research IT program that will focus on providing access to transparent, efficient, and affordable research computing tools and data storage. The program will be established by Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Kelly Caylor and Michael Colee, Director of General Research IT (GRIT).
Michael will serve as Interim Director of Research IT and brings over three decades of experience in research and research IT support at UCSB, and is currently chair of the UC Research IT Committee, a systemwide committee focused on representing the community of research IT and computing professionals to the UC CIO Council.
Research IT will focus on understanding the research data and computing needs of UCSB researchers and work across campus IT groups and ITS to seek out the best ways to meet researcher needs. To kick things off:
  • The Office of Research in collaboration with GRIT is offering research data storage services at $15 per terabyte per year to all researchers at UCSB.  Requests for storage should be sent to help@grit.ucsb.edu.  The GRIT team has documentation and tools available to help in migrating storage from Google Drive and/or other locations, if needed.
  • The Office of Research will sponsor the cost of CrashPlan licenses for laptop/desktop backups for up to five years for any UCSB researchers opting in. CrashPlan (https://rcd.ucsb.edu/backup-recovery) provides secure, continuous backup for critical research data, meeting compliance with most extramural funding requirements and safeguarding research. (PerConsult Maywith 3,your 2024local emailIT announcment).support

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