File Storage

What's the problem?

Many of your critical research and teaching files are stored on a single hard drive in your office. Maybe you remember to keep a second up-to-date copy somewhere, but odds are, you don't.

Why should I care?

You don't want to reconstruct the work that went into those files. You may forget to copy a file onto your flash drive that you need for a lecture or to work at home, and have to either go back to your office to retrieve it, or do without it. You may accidentally overwrite one of your files and wish you had it back the way it was yesterday, or you may only recognize the error weeks later, and wish you had it back the way it was a month ago, but you've already overwritten it on your flash drive, your home PC, etc.

What's your solution?

Store your work-related data on the CAE file server. It has redundant disks to protect your data from mechanical failure of a single disk drive. It's accessible from campus labs, offices, classrooms, or anywhere you work off-campus.

On-campus File Server Access (Mac OS X version shown)

Off-campus File Server Access (Windows XP version shown)

As of September 2008, we can restore a file to its original state from any given day in the most recent two months. We can restore those files to their original state from the beginning of a given month over a one-year period. We can restore them to their state from the end of a semester for any time since December 2004.

Where can I find more information?

Contact Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu, 372-3601, Clement Hall 314), or see this documentation.