maintaining your data

This article from Lifehacker outlines some great practices to share with users.

"Hard drives get messy. You save files and forget them, download huge chunks of data that pile up, and change your naming schemes a hundred times. It's spring, though, so why not do a little tidying up? 

To make things simpler, we're going to look at this from the perspective of cleaning up a secondary drive that doesn't have an OS installed on it. You can use these same tactics for any drive, but there are other ways to save space on a system drive including clearing caches, eliminating old temp folders, etc. Right now, though, we just want to focus on your junk."

A university needs to maintain and backup user data just like any other business - it's a universal need. It's also important to understand that there is a significant cost attached to that need; which uses up funding that would be better used elsewhere.

If everyone can clean up at least a few gigabytes of crap, it collectively saves many terabytes and frees up funds for the important stuff.


By the way, UNL provides desktop backup service via NSave: http://nsave.unl.edu