Protecting Your Data Introduction Keeping backup copies of your important documents is crucial whether you are as a student, faculty, or staff member. We recommend that you always make at least two copies of the current version of a document on two different storage devices. Recommended Backup Procedure for Students Keep one copy of your documents on a floppy disk. Change your floppy disks often. Disks are cheap, your time is not.
Floppy disks tend to fail at the worst possible times.
Your second copy can be saved to the network server. Macintosh users need to connect to the server in order to access their personal network share. Students are allocated approximately 30 MB of disk space for personal storage. It is strongly suggested that you use this space as a backup location for your important files. Even though this is a very secure location to store your data, you should still use floppy disks in case network problems exist when you need to produce course-related work, i.e. network problems may not be accepted by your professor as a reason for a late assignment.