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IT Policies

Storage usage

AUS provides limited disk-based storage space for individual faculty, staff, and students, for course-related materials, and for departmental materials. Such space is provided for the University community to use in accordance with the AUS Code of Conduct (attached).

It is strictly unauthorized to store music and video files on servers for personal use.

Two directories with their respective subdirectories are available under the following address:

\\Nasfiler1\username : provided to all staff and faculty for their personal use.

Online snapshots are taken every four hours and kept for up to eight weeks.Backup for business directories is scheduled once every day. Deans and directors are responsible for ensuring access rights are properly defined and report to IT. For applications requiring shared access, this is a critical function.

Faculty/Staff & students are responsible for backing up their own data residing on their PC's.


The following table indicates the starting allowances for storage space, depending on your category at the University, and the maximum amount of space that can be granted upon request.

CATEGORY STANDARD ALLOWANCE
Undergraduate students 650 Megabytes
Graduate students 650 Megabytes
Faculty/staff 2.5 Gega bytes
Note: Exceptions can be requested based upon faculty recommendation and approval of the deans.

 

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