These notes are historical, and represent our prepatory thinking before creating backup/redundancy copies for digital collections. They are left here to understand what our motivation were, and the complexities of determining appropriate backup/redundancy strategy. The details may not represent present architecture. See also Backups of the Digital Collections and Digital CollecS3 Bucket Setup and Architecture
Scihist_digicoll Backup and Recovery
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The 2019 version of our digital collection application (scihist_digcoll) has slightly different preservation needs than the old Samvera application it was based on. However, our institutional goals remain the same. While we will be making technical changes to preservation methods, our backup and recovery goals are still linked to the following key points in order of importance:
TThese Provide backups of all original ingested files to they can be recovered in case of natural disaster, data corruption, user error, or malicious computer activity.
Allow the Institute to recover from data loss or outages in a reasonable rate of time.
Adhere to OAIS model rules when possible.
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