TeamShare¶
TeamShare is a UBC service that allows Faculty and Staff to store and share files with their teams.
Cost¶
As of 7 August 2019, the UBC teamshare service charges a flat rate of CAD 0.15 per gigabyte per year. A minimum of 20 GB must be purchased. Charges will be made monthly to the speed chart provided when making the application.
Signing Up¶
To sign up for TeamShare, the following requirements have to be met:
- An Enterprise Active Directory (EAD) account, which in turn requires a CWL account.
- All UBC faculty, staff and students have a CWL account. People external to UBC can be sponsored a CWL account to gain access.
- The department must be onboarded onto EAD
- A billing contact and speed chart
Once these requirements are met, department administrators can order TeamShare Storage Service by submitting a Systems Service Request.
Access¶
Teamshare can only be accessed through the UBC network or through the UBC VPN.
CWL is used to log into the VPN, which can be accessed on a variety of systems, of which Windows and MacOS are officially supported.
Backups¶
From the TeamShare FAQs:
Backup snapshots are taken:
- Every 2 hours between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm and kept for 5 days
- Daily at midnight and kept for 30 days
Teamshare is fully compliant with the 3-2-1 Backup Rule with an offsite backup in Kamloops. This means that it can be a one-stop shop option for data storage and backup, especially for labs that produce small disk volumes of data.