Archives

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