Posts Tagged Backup
Backup Policies for Research Data Storage (R: drive)
Posted by Petar Ivanov in Backup & Recovery, Desktop Computing & Printing, Personal and Departmental Storage (P&Q), Service Catalog, Services on April 29, 2013
Research Data Storage (R: drive) is backed up according to the following schedule: Once a month a full backup is taken and kept for a year. Full backups will pick up all files and filesystems at a “point in time” on a storage regardless of any other changes. A differential backup is taken once during [...]
How can I back up my computer?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Backup & Recovery, Desktop Computing & Printing, Frequently Asked Questions, Personal and Departmental Storage (P&Q), Service Catalog on June 2, 2011
We recommend not storing any data locally on your computer, but instead storing the data on a networked drive such as P, Q, or R. If you do not have access to a drive of this type, please contact OIT. If you do have data that must stay on your local computer, there are a [...]
Is my email backed up? If I need to recover a deleted email, how can I do that?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Communication & Collaboration, Frequently Asked Questions, Service Catalog on April 29, 2011
Backups: Items deleted from Exchange are retained for 14 days A special backup called a “frequent recovery point” is taken throughout the day and kept for 24 hours. Database backups are taken nightly, weekly, and monthly. Restores: To recover items that have been deleted in the past 14 days, open Outlook and go to Tools > [...]
Network Drives
Posted by Janice Mathews in Desktop Computing & Printing, Network & Connectivity, Service Catalog on April 15, 2011
The term network drive or network share refers to data storage space located on Tufts University servers. When you store files from your computer on a network share and login to the Tufts domain, your stored data is accessible, no matter where you are physically connected. In addition, the data you store on network shares [...]
P: Drive
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Network & Connectivity, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
The term network drive or network share refers to data storage space located on Tufts University servers. When you store files from your computer on a network share and login to the Tufts domain, your stored data is accessible, no matter where you are physically connected. In addition, the data you store on network shares [...]