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Bucky Backup offers an inexpensive and convenient way to protect your data and recover it if needed. Bucky Backup is available for individual workstations and for local area networks. It is high-quality, industrial-strength insurance against the loss of your irreplaceable data.

*Bucky Backup is available to anyone who can provide a DoIT number or UDDS direct charge information.

 

How to subscribe

  1. When registering for Bucky Backup support you have two options for method of payment:
    -Have your Business Office establish a D number (https://www.doit.wisc.edu/about/billing/doitnumber/) with DoIT if one does not already exist. Campus requisitions will no longer exist after June 30, 2007.
    -You can have charges made directly to your UDDS.
  2. Register on the web site as a new user. Define a password for yourself and a unique "node name" for your machine. By the next business day, you will receive an email message from DoIT confirming your node name and password and welcoming you as a Bucky Backup user. As part of the registration form you can also select to have DoIT install Bucky Backup on individual desktops or servers at no charge.

  3. Once you have received email message from DoIT, go to install page, select operating system and download TSM client.

  4. Start backing up your hard drive or server.