Backup and Retension Policy

Notes

This is a short list of important systems and the backup policies we have for them.

Banner

The Banner system's most important part is the database. We keep seven days of Database backups for Disaster recovery, and six months of logs around to remain compliant with auditing requirements.

Banner - 7 days (DR)

Email

Deleted Item Retention is set to 60 days. This setting means that if a user deleted an item from their Inbox, it will remain in their "Recover From Deleted Items" area for 60 days.

Email system/database backups are kept for 30 days. This means the total time we could recover a persons email account is 90 days.

File Servers

This refers to all network drives (N:, Q:, U:, W:) along with the student file server.

File Servers - 180 days

Blackboard

Blackboard - Database backups are kept seven days

Blackboard - Application server backups are kept seven days

All other servers

Regular Servers - 30 days