Restoration of deleted files from your home drive

The files on your home drive (U:) are stored on the network and are backed up (copied) every night.  You can access these backups for the previous 5 days to undertake self service recovery of files you may have accidentally deleted or require a previous version of.

Note: The information below is also available for download as a word document

Procedure for self service recovery

Click on the Start menu, select 'All Programs' and click on the shortcut labelled 'Recover deleted files from U drive'




This will bring up a window that has 5 folders in it, these are the backups that are available to you. The folders are named by the date and time that each back up was taken.
Note: The name of the folder is the time of the backup - the date modified value does not correspond with the backup time.




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.




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




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




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