Archiving and backup

Your website in the university-wide web solution is automatically archived twice a year, and a backup is also made every night.

Websites are archived twice a year

All websites in the university-wide web solution in Drupal are automatically archived twice a year. Archiving usually takes place just before New Year and around the end of June or beginning of July. Based on these archives, it is possible to view the website’s content from a previous date.

Create your own archive of the website

In addition to the backups carried out twice a year, you can create your own backup at any time, saving the entire website’s content to your computer. There are various services you can use to do this, including httrack.

Please note that it is not possible to restore the website from an archive; any content on the website that has been deleted by mistake, for example, will need to be recreated. However, you can use the archive to, for example, copy the text from the deleted page and paste it onto a newly created page.

Backups are performed every night

Backups are taken of all websites every night, and these are retained for one month. Using these backups, it is possible to restore the website if a major error has occurred. However, if, for example, individual pages have been accidentally deleted and need to be restored, we recommend recreating them manually rather than restoring the entire website (a full restore is resource-intensive and is only carried out in emergencies).

Please contact our web support team to access archiving or backup services

If you need help accessing content in the archived version of the website or a backup, please contact us via this link (log in with your LucatID and Freja+ credentials), which will take you to our contact form at supportcenter.lu.se.