Question about data archiving and recovery?

Question

I am a former student at NAU and needed to see what mail I received and/or sent during a month-timeframe several years ago. However, I do not know if such data is stored or even kept in backup archives (such as tape backup or microfiche).

This would be the Dana system at Northern Arizona University. I am trying to re-establish contact with a computer user I sent a game to in 1996 (which, unfortunately, I no longer have the original of or even same source code).

Thanks,

Paul

Yes, I just now contacted NAU via email but have not received a reply as of yet.

Answer 1

Paul, that will depend on the NAU's backup archive policy. Every network admin worth their salt has some form of data backup. But for college student user accounts, I doubt seriously they'd have them going back "several years ago."

Still, nothing ventured nothing gained. Go on the NAU site and see if you can even log in with your old user name and password. If you can, you might still have the original email in the sent folder. If you can't, call (don't email) the school's IT department and explain your dilemma. If nothing else, they will be able to tell you how far back their backups go. But unless you've done very well and have ***major*** bucks to donate to the alumni fund ;-), I doubt they'll go thru the hassle of a restore it for a 20th century era game.

I know this is a Duh! question, but have you tried a Yahoo or Google search on the game?

Answer 2

ok seem what i did is make a sparkling partition on my computer its my restoration partition!!!! i'm able to acces it with grub OS loader (google it) yet i dont pick it anymore cuz i dont use winblows, i take advantage of linux linux doesnt crash, isnt sluggish and it doesnt have any viruses!! and wager what? its unquestionably loose!!!!! its waaaay extra perfect than win$hit and it actual intense wish u deploy it i take advantage of ubuntu linux

Answer 3

have you asked NAU? if not, send them email.