ZID provides a personal storage space for every user that is reachable with CIFS/SMB. The default size of that storage is 10 GB but it can be expanded to 50 GB by writing a ticket. On GNU/Linux systems you can mount that share with the following command.

smbclient //nethome/uibk.ac.at/c123456 -U c123456 -W UIBK

This storage does support the “previous versions” features so it's possible to recall old versions of your files. Sadly there is no Free Software with that functionality at the moment so the restore has to be done on a Windows System. If you want to help implementing that feature you may want to check out libvshadow.

Your shares are also reachable from outside of the University Network using FTP

sftp://netsftp.uibk.ac.at/mnt/na04/home/home/c703/c703XXXX

Every unit of organization has a shared storage to collaborate in that unit. Ours can be found at

smb://netshare.uibk.ac.at/share/c703/

You can request a share for a project. Those shares are free up to 10 TB but may also be expanded further if needed. The contact at ZID is Reinhard Bischof.

For long-time archival of large amounts of data ZID offers a tape storage solution (slow but cheap) which is reachable at fabs.uibk.ac.at.

If you can't save you data at any of the mentioned solutions you should configure Tivoli Storage Manager Backup on your system.