Category: Storage

Cloud Storage

All information you need to know about “Cloud Storage” you will find in the “Cloud Service Center” There you will find information for Sharepoint, One Drive for Business and Google Workspace.   These are ETH’s rules that govern the use of external cloud services: Roles and responsibilities for the use of external cloud services (summary): […]

Google Workspace

Google Workspace is now available to all ETH employees free of charge. Here you will find answers to the most important questions about Google Workspace.   What is Google Workspace? Google Workspace is a set of services and apps for communication and collaboration that will facilitate collaboration inside and outside your organization. The most important […]

Recover deleted files

Backup A backup of the files and folders on server gess-fs (personal home folder) and the NAS (group storage) is made daily by TSM  (Tivoli Storage Manager) with a 3 month retention time. There is no backup for data stored on local disks. Previous Versions Additionally, 6 snapshots (checkpoints, aka previous versions) are taken on the […]

Home drive

Accessing personal data Your usual data and network shares are available when you log in with your nethz-account from any managed Wndows computer and from any RDS node. Your home directory will be mapped to the same network drive as you are used to. Additionally, you can map any CIFS or SMB Network share the same […]

Windows: Map network drive

Accessing Shares Find your group share here. Address of your personal folder: Windows: \\gess-fs.d.ethz.ch\home$\[username] Open “File Explorer” next to the “Start” button.   Select “Computer”. In order to connect to a folder click on “Map network drive” at the top of the window. Alternatively you can right click on “This PC” in the sidebar and […]

MacOS: Connect to a remote folder

Accessing Shares Find your group share here. Address of your personal folder: Mac: smb://gess-fs.d.ethz.ch/home$/[username] In the Finder, choose Go > “Connect to Server.” Type the network address for the folder in the Server Address field: NOTE: For Mac-Os Version prior to 10.6 you need the UNC path (according NAS nomenclature) Enter your user account in […]