Storage Resources:
Health Care Resources
Drive
C: Local
Address
H
S
R
ShareFile
Local
hc‐filexx.healthcare.uiowa.edu
hc‐filexx.healthcare.uiowa.edu
Service Owner
Customer
UI Health Care ‐ HCIS
UI Health Care ‐ HCIS
hc‐
researchxx.healthcare.uiowa.edu
https://uihealthcare.sharefile.co
m/
An enterprise cloud storage
solution for your file sharing and
collaboration needs.
Cost
Included in price of workstation
$3,000/100GB one time charge
$3,000/100GB one time charge
R: drive is a low cost file storage
option for research data in the
college. This is an ideal
location for large data sets, or
long‐term storage.
Service Level
Unknown
24 x 7, 365 days
24 x 7, 365 days
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Description
HIPAA Compliant?
UI Storage Policy
Compliant?
Frequency of backups
To recover deleted
files
Retention:
How is this data
backed-up?
Local Drive is where you will get
the best performance when
analyzing data.
Must be encrypted
Unknown
Hard drive would need to be sent
to an external company
Unknown
Unknown
H: drive is the best place to keep
personal documents like Outlook
files (.pst) or HR documents.
Yes
3 times per day
User can recover files that have
been deleted (using instructions
available from the help desk), if
the recovery is done within
several days of the file deletion.
6 Months
Microsoft’s Volume Shadow
Services (VSS) runs 3 times a day
and each copy is retained for
approximately 14 days.
The file cluster is backed up daily
using a Veritas NetBackup Media
Server Agent after 12am. All file
servers (HC-File1-9) are backed
up Monday-Thursday with a
differential backup that is
retained for 1 week. A full backup
is run on Friday that is retained
for 1 month. A full backup is also
run on the last day of the month
that is retained for 6 months.
S: drive is a high availability file
storage option for lab or
departmental documents.
Yes
3 times per day
User can recover files that have
been deleted (using instructions
available from the help desk), if
the recovery is done within
several days of the file deletion.
6 Months
Microsoft’s Volume Shadow
Services (VSS) runs 3 times a day
and each copy is retained for
approximately 14 days.
The file cluster is backed up daily
using a Veritas NetBackup Media
Server Agent after 12am. All file
servers (HC-File1-9) are backed
up Monday-Thursday with a
differential backup that is
retained for 1 week. A full backup
is run on Friday that is retained
for 1 month. A full backup is also
run on the last day of the month
that is retained for 6 months.
Carver College of Medicine
UI Health Care ‐ HCIS
First allocation to departments is
free; additional space can be
purchased at $270/TB/year for
the first three years
2GB Free
Yes
Yes
24 x 7, 365 days
24 x 7, 365 days
Yes
Yes
1 times per day
User can recover files that have
been deleted (using instructions
available from the help desk), if
the recovery is done within
several days of the file deletion.
3 Months
Microsoft’s Volume Shadow
Services (VSS) runs 3 times a day
and each copy is retained for
approximately 10 days.
The second component of the
back ups could be thought of as
disaster recovery back ups (i.e.
we have multiple disc failures).
These back ups consist of two
parts: First, there are snapshots
that will be taken on the primary
storage server and second, some
of these snapshots will be
replicated to a second storage
server in Lindquist Center.
1 times per week
User can recover files that have
been deleted (using instructions
available from the help desk), if
the recovery is done within seven
days of the file deletion.
1 Month
Full back-up every Tuesday, kept
for 4 weeks. 3rd Tuesday is
month end and is kept for 6
months. Sunday & Thursday diffs
are captured and those are kept 1
week.
Storage Resources:
ITS Resources
Drive
C: Local
H:Drive
RDSS
LSS
OneDrive
iowa.uiowa.edu/shared/research
data/
itf-rs-store05.hpc.uiowa.edu/
onedrive.uiowa.edu
ITS
One part of a central file storage
service suite that is tailored to
meet the broad storage needs of
research labs across campus up to
10 TB.
ITS
One part of a central file storage
service suite that is tailored to
meet the broad storage needs of
research labs across campus.
ITS
5TB Free then $270/TB/YR
$60/TB/YR, $120/TB/YR with
backups
1TB Free
No
Depends
Yes
Yes
Yes
Snapshots occur throughout the
day
Hourly – Retaining the last twelve
hourly snapshots
Continually.
Self-Restore
Self-Restore from Recycle Bin
6 Months
1 Month Days
3 Months
30 day snapshots are online for
users to do a "self-restore".
Backups of data are kept for 6
months.
Snapshots occur throughout the
day, and are retained for up to
one month. Files older than 30
days will not be retrievable.
Snapshots:
Hourly – Retaining the last twelve
hourly snapshots
Daily – Retaining the last seven
daily snapshots
Monthly – Retaining the last three
monthly snapshots
Deleted items remain in Recycle
Bin until it is emptied or 90 days.
Address
Local
Service Owner
Customer
ITS
Cost
Included in price of workstation
25GB free
Service Level
Unknown
24 x 7, 365 days
24 x 7, 365 days
UI Storage Policy
Compliant?
Must be backed up
Yes
Frequency of backups
Unknown
Daily
To recover deleted
files
Hard drive would need to be sent
to an external company
Self-Restore
Unknown
Unknown.
Description
HIPAA Compliant?
Retention:
How is this data
backed-up?
Local Drive is where you will get
the best performance when
analyzing data.
Must be encrypted
H: drive is the best place to keep
personal documents like Outlook
files (.pst) or HR documents.
Depends
Depends – Auditing can be turned
on
Self-Restore
Changes are replicated to a
remote site every four hours, to
ensure files can be restored
quickly in case of a major
disaster.
No after-hours support
Backups:
Daily – Retaining the last thirty
daily backups
Monthly – Retaining the last three
monthly backups
An enterprise cloud storage
solution for your file sharing and
collaboration needs.
Data is backed up and synced
continually to the cloud.