Backup Options

• 3.5" Floppy disk
  You can back-up your data files to floppy disks for easy storage and portability. You can store up to 1.44Mb of data on each floppy disks.

• Network Drive
  Data files may also be backed up to your P: drive. The P: drive is your network drive on the departmental file server. For more information on your network drive, see the Network Drives section of this guide. These files are backed up nightly to tape.

  Note: If you backup your files to your network drive, do not back-up your entire hard disk (C: drive) to your network drive! Only backup document files, and not actual program files. Also, if your have a great deal of files on your network drive that you don't need to access often, but want to save, consider putting them onto a CD-ROM (see below).

• CD Archiving
  CD-ROM is the medium of choice for DPALM archiving of personal files. A CD-ROM can be made for a user for the following reasons:

  1. Leaving the Department
  2. Purging your network drive(s) of old files that are no longer used but still need to be saved
  3. Easy transportation of presentations that will not fit on floppy disks
  

  Contact the MIS staff for information about creating a CD-ROM.