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By default your HOME directory is the directory in which you "land" when you log in. The path of this directory is usually:
/home/username
It is also stored in the HOME environment variable (see further down):
echo $HOME
In general there is not much space in your HOME but therefore, at UQAM, a backup of everything you keep under your HOME is done every night and kept for a week. The backup of Friday nights is even kept for a month.
3 hours. We also keep daily and weekly backups for up to 4 weeks. You if you ever remove something by accident or if the machine /or disk unit crashes, there will still be a copy of everything you had in your HOME.
Therefore, it is strongly suggested that you keep everything which is small and importent important in your HOME! Like programs, scripts, configuration files.
If ever you need to get something back from the backup, talk to Nadjet Labassi.
If you need to store larger amounts of data, talk to Katja Winger.
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