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Backup Procedures

IU Northwest IT staff have developed and are utilizing a tape backup scheme to ensure the recoverability of university data in the event of server disk failure, data corruption, or accidental deletion by the end user.  A full backup to tape of the IU Northwest fileserver hard drive data is done every Saturday evening. After checking for success, these full backup tapes are rotated to an alternate campus site on Monday morning. These weekly full backup tapes are saved for 5 weeks. After the fifth week the tapes are reused.  Thus files and folders can only be restored as far back as 35 days.  Nightly incremental backups are done Sunday – Friday evenings. All backups are checked for success on the next business day; should a backup procedure fail, the backup will be repeated as soon as reasonably possible.  

Users may request a restore by contacting the IT Helpdesk at x 4357 (XHELP). Every effort will be made to perform a restore on the same day it is received. There is no charge for a restore.

IU Northwest faculty and staff are reminded that it is University policy that data files containing university confidential information and data that is essential to university business is to be stored on the university’s fileservers, and not on a user’s local hard drive.