• A professor loses her last copy of her class syllabus and can't find the only disk with the electronic file.
• Right before the department's general staff meeting, a staff member deletes the one copy of the annual report he had worked on for months.
• End of the semester blues: The file for a student's term paper is stored on her computer's hard drive. The drive becomes unusable, and she is unable to turn in her paper on time.

Need help deciding how to back up your files?
 

• For information about off-site (away from the department) storage of diskettes containing backup files, call University Archives at 831-2750.
• For answers to specific questions about backing up files, call the Help Center at 831-6000 or send e-mail to consult@udel.edu.
• To see equipment designed to help a department back up its information efficiently, contact the Technology Solutions Center. Send e-mail to tsc-info@udel.edu or call the center at 831-8895.
• For information about having information technologies back up a departmental UNIX server, call Dan Grim at 831-3700 or send e-mail to grim@udel.edu.

 

In some situations, you may need special hardware and software to make regularly scheduled backups of your work.

If you answer, "Yes," to any of the following questions, consider contacting the Technology Solutions Center to discuss your backup needs.
 

• Does your system have more than 300 Megabytes of disk space?
• Does your work require you to create lots of computer files?
• Does your work require that you regularly create computer files that are too big to fit on one diskette?
• Do you run a network server on which colleagues store their work?