All Employee of EPFL are required to do regular backups of the laptop computer they use
For this reason EPFL provide a backup service (aTempo Lina) free of charge that every user can request to use.

The Unit IT staff doesn't provide direct support to personal laptops, but you can use different services of our filer structure to your gain. The use of these services, as backup system, is under your only responsibility, the unit do not control what you do and how you do it.

1. Homedir: the home directory is used to store your work related documents/programs/stuff, but you can use it also to store some personal related data (photos/images, videos, documents) if the footprint is relatively small (under 100 GB).
2. Scratch server: The scratch server provide space for everyone and there's no imposed limit (time or space) on its use. Please use it as you like, but adopt a fair play policy, as everyone in the Unit will need to store data.
3. google disk/dropbox/microsoft onedrive: these and others internet services are offering storage space for your personal data, but their storage/use policy is not always in line with the rules of EPFL, the European GDPR and/or the Swiss laws regarding privacy . Please refer to official EPFL documentation/policies about the use of cloud services.