By default, the School of Medicine Code42 (formerly CrashPlan) backup service will back up the contents of all local drives in the host computer. This includes all user files, application data, and other data. This is the safest policy in the event of a system failure, as anything that was on the machine can be restored from the backup server.
Some people may be uncomfortable storing personal information on a computer that backs up to the School's backup system, though the School of Medicine will only access such information as necessary to restore a system at the user's direction, as part of a legitimate investigation, or as compelled by legal process.
Should you wish to exclude individual files or directories from your backups, you can do so from within the Code42 application. Files excluded in this manner will be automatically purged from the backup archive. Any personal data so identified that had been previously backed up will be automatically and permanently deleted from the backup system but will remain on the computer.
All Stanford data must remain on the computer and be available for back up.