A data archiving system will help the university managed increased information storage

York St John University has implemented data management software to cope with growing volumes of information.

Data stored by the university's 600 employees expanded by 50 per cent over 18 months, largely due to the popularity of multimedia files.

Even recently-installed systems needed to be improved, said Peter Mather, network management & development officer at the university.

"We were running out of disk space, our full weekly backup was taking up to 14 hours and it was fast getting to the stage where we would need to expand the backup-to-disk system we had installed quite recently," he said.

As well as allowing York St John to comply with regulations such as the Data Protection Act, the system from BridgeHead Software, is expected to archive about half of the data held on primary storage.