S Drive scheduled maintenance - Grand Final Day

eSolutions is undertaking essential upgrade work on the University's corporate data storage infrastructure.  This infrastructure provides staff and students with the S: drive and personal storage folders (Documents, Pictures, Desktop and Favorites).  To carry out the upgrade work it will be necessary to shutdown the storage system. We are planning to complete the work on Fri Sep 28th (Grand Final public holiday) with Sat Sep 29th as a contingency day.

During this time staff will not be able to access S: drive folders. Access to data stored in or on Desktop, Documents and Pictures will be available via synchronised copies stored on your computer.  Any changes made during the outage will be synchronised once the storage system is back on-line.

Students will be able to log into lab computers but will not be able to access their stored data.

What will be the impact?

Staff

• Will not have access to the S: drive files and folders.
• Will have access to locally synchronised copies their personal Documents, Pictures, Desktop and Favourites on their primary computer e.g. laptop or desktop.
• Any changes made will be re-synchronised to the on-line storage when they next logon after the change has been completed.

Students

• Will be able to log into lab computers and MoVE virtual machines but will receive a generic profile.
• Will not have access to the S: drive or their their personal Documents, Pictures, Desktop and Favourites.
• Will need to save any files and data to a USB drive or Google Drive for upload after the change has been completed.

When is it happening?

Fri Sep 28 (Grand Final public holiday)
Sat Sep 29  - contingency day if required.