Data Archiving
Save the Data!
Since August 2006 all efforts have been made to safely archive three years of data that was stored on the hard drives of each instrument. We now have a separate server onto which your data is saved on a regular basis and on which all of your previous data is now stored. However, I would strongly encourage each investigator to keep his or her own archive as well.
Please bring a thumb (flash) drive to each of your experiment sessions and save another copy of your data in a secure location. We'll do everything we can to keep your data safe, but do take responsibility for your data as well.
In order to keep the data from each lab and user separate but easy to archive, we ask that you follow the following naming protocol for your experiments:
PI'sLastNameDateUserInitials
For example:
Weller041207KP
This convention allows us to search for data from each lab by three different methods to make sure things don't get confused when storing all the core data by month for archive purposes.
