Bourns College of Engineering Business Continuity Site

This portal will allow access to minimal services during an outage



What is the Bourns College of Engineering Business Continuity Services?

In the case of a campus-wide outage of all Bourns College of Engineering Systems services, this Business Continuity Site will provide:

  • Read Only Home Directory, Locker access
  • Read Only Engineering File Server access
  • Web-based mail for sending/receiving email (new messages only)


Allowing Access Through the Firewall

Step 1: Login using your ENGR credentials to allow access through the firewall. https://bunkerweb.engr.ucr.edu/firewall/

Access resets each day at midnight.


Logging into your Home Directory/Locker

PuTTY: Logging into Home Directory

Step 1: Download PuTTY using the download on the right or another ssh third-party application.

Step 2: Open PuTTY. In the host name field, enter pascal.engr.ucr.edu. Leave the Port number as 22. Open the connection.

Step 3: Enter your ENGR username in the login as: and your ENGR password in the Password field.

Step 3: If the connection was successful, you will have access to a terminal of your home directory. To access locker, type cd /home/locker into your shell.

WinSCP: Copying Files from your Home Directory

Step 1: Download WinSCP using the download on the right or another scp third-party application.

Step 2: Open WinSCP. Select SFTP under the File protocol. In the host name field, enter pascal.engr.ucr.edu. Leave the Port number as 22. Enter your ENGR username in the User name field and your ENGR password in the Password field. Click Login to connect.

Step 3: If the connection was successful, you will see a read only version of your remote home directory on the remote file panel. You may drag and drop files from the remote file panel to your local file panel (left panel). To access locker, change your directory to /home/locker


Accessing ENGR File Servers

Step 1: Login using your ENGR credentials at https://bunkerfile.engr.ucr.edu.


Accessing Webmail

In the event of a systemwide outage, all ENGR emails will be rerouted to a remote mail server. During an outage, emails will become available at https://bunkerweb.engr.ucr.edu/webmail/.

Emails will only be accessible through this webmail program. There will be no IMAP, POP, or Outlook access. Emails will continue to be available for 30 days after the systemwide outage is dissipated.


Contact Us

Bourns College of Engineering Systems Department
Email: systems@engr.ucr.edu