The goal of this policy is to facilitate the preservation of critical data.
Data stored on the server is protected through nightly backups.
This is insufficient, however, for two reasons. Server backups are written over periodically. It is therefore important to develop a research team policy of regularly backing up data to make certain that there are permanent records of critical data and documents. Many research team members will of necessity store critical data and documents on their PCs or laptops. The Project Coordinator must develop a policy to preserve these data.