Revision as of 17:53, 1 May 2020

UMIACS Archives

When UMIACS archives data we hold onto the archive for a period of 5 years.

In general, we archive the following:

the primary drive from hosts with persistent local data (Windows, macOS)
accounts that are archived and deleted (including metadata, network home directory/directories, and GitLab repositories)
mailboxes that no longer receive mail (i.e. the forward address that used to go to the mailbox has changed)

We may not archive the following:

tmp and scratch directories (as discussed on our page about data storage)
external drives that were attached to a machine
Data that migrated forward to a new machine
Data that was handed off into the care of the end-user or PI
Data from drives that failed and was not under backup protection, that is unavailable for us to archive
Data from self supported machines

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 * the primary drive from hosts with persistent local data (Windows, macOS)
 * accounts that are archived and deleted (including metadata, network home directory/directories, and GitLab repositories)
-* mailbox(es) that no longer receive mail (i.e. the forward address that used to go to the mailbox has changed)
+* mailboxes that no longer receive mail (i.e. the forward address that used to go to the mailbox has changed)
 We may not archive the following: