Institutional shared drives are limited in physical size so, personal data should not be saved on those resources.

3.4.1 University  servers are backed up on a scheduled basis as listed.

Nightly - Incremental backups will be performed to be retained until the next full backup is performed.

Weekly - Full data backups will be performed to be retained for five weeks.

Monthly - Full data backups will be performed to be retained one year from the date of the backup.

3.4.2 Desktop Backups:

3.4.2.1 Users are responsible for making own backups of their data

3.4.2.2 OIT can help to owner of data to create a process of backup. Owner needs to asset the following:

a) Value of the data,

b) Security and or encryption requirements for the data,

c) Reason why the data is not stored on an Institutional shared resource,

d) Identify the specific path to the directories where the data is stored separately from the program files and operating system files,

e) Define the time period to retain the backup, and

f) Specific needs or requirement for repetition of the backup.

3.4.2 Email Backups:

Nightly - Incremental backups will be performed to be retained until the next full backup is performed.

Weekly - Full data backups will be performed to be retained for five weeks.

Archive method is recommended every 14 days, this under user responsibility.

3.4        BACKUP/RECOVERY

3.   Security Safeguards (TAC 202.75.7 )