Posts Tagged Storage
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 [...]
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 [...]
External Hard Drive Storage
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
External hard drives are often an inexpensive and fast way to make a backup of a computer. The drawback to external hard drives is that data is infrequently backed up, and the external hard drive is often stored in the same location as the original data and subject to the same hazards. External hard drives [...]
Research Storage
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Service Catalog, Teaching, Learning & Research on April 7, 2011
Research Storage: researchers who need backed-up network-accessible storage for their research data can ask for storage shares from 50GB to 1TB and beyond. This is exclusively for research storage and it does not overlap with existing personal (P:) and departmental (Q:) drives where non-research documents should be stored. This central service is offered at no [...]