These items were based on earlier conversations in the committee, and some seemed relatively non-controversial. As long as an inordinate amount of disk space is not being used for non-business use, this is not problematic. The discussion that ensued about this point came to consensus fairly easily. While staff have the freedom to store personal data on the networked drives, they should not expect LTT to be responsible for restoring personal data if it is inadvertently deleted. However it would be inappropriate for a staff member to request that LTT search through archive tapes for specific files, if they were non-business files.
Personal data is the responsibility of each user to back up on their own.
The Library Technology Team will not exclude personal data from global network backups, but it is not their responsibility to restore personal data, even if it was on the network drive. Marshall recommends all work-related files be stored on network drives. LTT has been called in the past to attempt to restore work-related files from local hard disks and even from floppy disks. Such efforts are very time intensive and not always successful. The discussion about this point also moved fairly quickly to a consensus.