Restoration of deleted files from your home drive

The files on your user drive are all stored on the network and are backed up every night.

ITS has implemented a new feature enabling you to do self service recovery of files you may have accidentally deleted, or require a previous version of.

Self service recovery is available for the previous 5 days. You can quickly and easily access previous versions of your files by clicking on "RECOVER deleted files off U drive' from the Programs menu (see below), or by opening up a windows explorer windows and typing '.ckpt' in the address bar and then following the instructions below.

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1. This will bring up a window that has 5 folders in it, these are the backups of your home folder that are available to you. The folders are named by the date that each back up was taken.



NOTE: These are taken at midday everyday. Ignore the GMT setting

2.       Select the folder time of your choice and enter the folder. This folder will contain an exact copy of your files at the time that the backup was taken.

3.      Select the files that you want to restore and copy them to your U: drive. Please note that you will be unable to save files within the backup folders.

4.    Paste the files back in your U: drive to fully recover them.

5.     You will now be able to resume working from the file/folders as normal.