Can others access my H drive?
If you have personal files that you want to save on the Library IT fileserver, store them on your H drive (home directory). If you have files that need to be shared by multiple people, store them in a folder on the G drive (group directories). The H drive and the G drive are “network drives.” Files saved to the H and G drives are backed up every night
by Library IT. Files saved to C drive on your computer are NOT backed up every night and are vulnerable to loss if your computer crashes. To view the contents of your H drive or your G drive folders click the “Computer” icon on your computer’s desktop. All the network drives to which you have access appear in the “Network Drives” section of this page. Click the icon for the drive you want to view. If your drive
does not show up or you’re accessing it from a different computer that does not automatically map the drive, you can always add the drive yourself. You will have to go through this process for each drive you wish to map. When you leave your job at the
Library, your access to your H drive and your G drive folders will be removed. The files on your H drive will be deleted. Be sure to transfer any H drive files you don’t want to lose to a flash drive, or some other form of removable media, before you leave the Library. The College are in the process of decommissioning the H: drive. These pages are here as legacy and used for reference only. If you wish to save your personal work or study files, please use OneDrive for Business. All students and members of staff are allocated space on the Colleges Home directory or H: drive. You can access your H: drive from any computer connected to the College network. Access your H: driveFind out how to access your H: drive using the online home directory finder. If you need to access your H: Drive remotely, follow the instructions on our remote working pages. H: drive quotasUndergraduate studentsUndergraduate students are allocated up to 4GB of secure file space each. Staff and postgraduate studentsStaff and postgraduate students are allocated up to 8GB. Additional spaceAdditional H: drive space can be provided to staff at the rates in this table, subject to the approval of your Departmental IT Representative. Costs for additional H: drive spaceSummary of the table's contents
How to recover a deleted H: drive fileYour H: drive is backed up daily, so if you delete a file or folder you can check for a previously saved version and restore it yourself. Instructions for recovering deleted H: drive files
You may want to rename any older documents or items so that you don't overwrite items that have the same name.
You may want to rename any older documents or items so that you don't overwrite items that have the same name. How long are backups kept?Most requests to restore a deleted file are made within 24 hours of that file having been deleted. For that reason, backups are made more frequently during this initial 24 hour window than after it. Further backups are made with decreasing frequency for 7 days:
Recovery of files older than 7 days and younger than 90 days has to be carried out by the ICT Support team. If you can't see the previous version of a file that you need, or the file or folder is not present, contact the ICT Service Desk with:
Is an H drive private?Your H: drive is your "home" drive. The W: drive is the "workgroup" area, typically (though not always) used for file sharing with others in your department. H: is considered your private space. Only you have access to it.
Can I access my H drive from home?Rather than e-mailing documents back and forth or using unreliable removable media (flash drives, floppy disks, etc), students can use the VPN connection to connect to their H drives from home. High speed Internet access (cable modem or DSL) is highly recommended, however dial- up will work.
What is the purpose of the H drive?Your H: drive, or Home drive, is the main place that you should save files to. It is a network drive which means that it is not tied to the computer that you are using (files stored locally on a computer are typically stored on the C: drive).
Is H drive the hard drive?The H drive is the portion of the hard drive that is not compressed.
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