As you know, the homes are too small to put larger data you might like to have backed up. So there is now a possibility to get larger data (up to 1 TB in total) backed up automatically as well. But since this data volume could be quite large this backup will only be done every weekend. You could use this to backup, for example, a set of data or images you created for an ongoing publication or your thesis.

To get part(!) of your data backup every weekend you need to do three things:

1) Provide your email address

You need to create a file in your home with the name:

This file needs to contain just an email address to which emails will get send in case the backup does not work. Nothing else. You can change this email address any time.

2) Create directory with links to data to be backed up

You need to create a directory in your home called ~/A_sauvegarder:

Inside this directory you need to create symbolic links (with 'ln -s ...')  to all the directories/files you would like to get backed up every weekend.

3) Make sure the total amount of your data stays below 1 TB

Since, as usual, disk space is limited, your data will NOT get backed up if the total amounts to more than 1 TB. You can check the total space with the command:

That's all folks!