It is not kept by the department. ITS does not repair faculty home computers. Backups Files on carroll1 and pioneer are backed up several times a week, but not daily. While we will try to retrieve lost files from backup tapes the same day they are requested, this may not always be possible. In any case, we will need exact filenames and the date the file was on the system.
Faculty are responsible for backing up their own desktop computers.
ITS will be happy to provide instructions for doing this. Floppy disks can be purchased from US Office Products, our office supplies vendor. All faculty, both full time and part time, have been assigned voice mail boxes. ITS has documentation on the use of voice mail. If you have an answering machine and would like it to pick up prior to the voice mail system, you should set your answering machine to pick up after two rings.