ABOUT THIS SERVICE
WARNING: SFU Vault is will be unavailable August 15 - 16 from 7:00pm - 7:00pm. This scheduled outage is required to complete maintenance including application and operating system upgrades.
Please be advised that
Vault is not the recommended cloud storage solution at Simon Fraser University. To ensure data security, collaboration efficiency, and compliance with institutional policies, we ask that all faculty and staff
refrain from using Vault for storing or sharing files.
Instead, we strongly encourage the use of the following Microsoft 365 tools, which are fully supported and integrated into our systems:
- Microsoft Teams – for team collaboration and file sharing
- SharePoint – for departmental and project-based document management
- OneDrive – for personal file storage and sharing
If you have any files currently stored in Vault, please migrate them to one of the approved platforms as soon as possible. For assistance with migration or questions about using these tools, please contact your IT support contact or the Service Desk.
SFU vault provides easy file sharing between teams or individual users to assist in the various projects undertaken by university members and to foster collaboration from external access points. You only need internet connectivity to manage files in the cloud storage system.
All SFU files uploaded into the system will be protected under the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), which alleviates any risk of storing sensitive information within US-based cloud storage providers such as Dropbox, Google Drive.
BACKUPS AND RESTORES IN SFU VAULT
SFU Vault is a multi-device, cloud file synchronization service, but it is not a replacement for good backups.
If you or your device makes destructive changes to files, those destructive changes may also be synchronized. In many cases, SFU Vault's file versioning and access to recently deleted files may be able to help recover accidentally "lost" or damaged files; however, the ability to recover files is limited by the amount of space free in your personal SFU Vault quota and other factors.
SFU Vault enables storage of and access to files in the cloud across devices. While synchronizing your files to multiple devices may provide additional resiliency in some circumstances (hard drive failure on one machine, for example), not all cases of file loss can be addressed by file synchronization. For that reason, we do not recommend that SFU Vault be used as your only method of keeping your data safe.
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