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Service Update: Home Drive (U: drive) Storage Decommission

The process of decommissioning the personal home drive (known as the U: drive) started in December 2021. OIT will be publishing guides for self-migration as well as offer assisted or automated migrations beginning Spring 2022 to alternative cloud storage locations.
  • Personal Rice Home Drives (known as the U: drive) are no longer provisioned.
  • Websites hosted on the Personal Rice Home Drives will need to be migrated to Blogs if they need to be maintained. 
  • Unused and/or empty U: drives will be automatically decommissioned (beginning December 2021)
  • Group and/or Departmental storage drives are not part of these service changes.

Data migrated to OneDrive by OIT will show up in your OneDrive in a folder called UDriveMigration.

Your Role During Decommission

1. Review the data in your personal storage home directory (U: drive) and delete unwanted files.
3. Evaluate each of the following solutions for your data:
b. Box
3.    See an example: Moving personal storage to OneDrive
4.    Review self-migration guides.
cloud services

Self-migration Guides



Keywords:
decommissioning personal home drive U: drive self-migration alternative cloud storage locations. Group or Departmental storage drives service changes decommission update 
Doc ID:
115608
Owned by:
NeedsOwner U. in Rice U
Created:
2022-01-11
Updated:
2023-05-04
Sites:
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