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| − | URY Computing maintains several places in which files can be stored, including: | + | This is the general '''URY timeline''', arranged by decade. |
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| − | * General Filestore
| + | == 60s == |
| − | * Temporary Filestores
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| − | ** production
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| − | ** studio2
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| − | * Central Music Library
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| − | * Managed Resource/Personal Resource Libraries
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| − | * Podcast Archive
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| − | In October 2013, we changed around how some of this works, to ensure that data is stored in a more logical way and is properly backed up.
| + | * ''1960: The UK's first student radio station is founded as Crush Radio (but it doesn't legally broadcast for a while)''. |
| | + | * '''1967''': URY is founded as the UK's first ''legal'' independent broadcasting radio station, as Radio York under a test licence from the BBC. |
| | + | * '''1969''': Radio York is refounded as University Radio York and opened with a guest broadcast by John Peel. |
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| | + | == 70s == |
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| − | == General Filestore == | + | == 80s == |
| − | On all URY computers, this is available as the S:\ drive. Physically located at \\urybackup0\pool1, this is where any files that you want to keep should be placed, such as finished jingles, images or packages. You should not use this filestore for works in progress, such as Audacity projects.
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| − | Information in this filestore is sorted into 4 key areas:
| + | == 90s == |
| − | * Shows | + | *'''1998''' URY celebrates its 30th birthday by a Restricted Service Licence (RSL), broadcasting on FM for four weeks to the city of York as well as campus. |
| − | * Teams
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| − | * People
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| − | * Photos
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| − | When saving a file, please make sure you put it in the relevant place. Within each of these categories, there is also an Archive folder.
| + | *'''1999''' URY moves from an induction loop system on campus to a Low Powered AM licence (LPAM) enabling a stronger signal on campus and more listeners. |
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| − | === Maintenance of this Filestore ===
| + | *'''1999''' To celebrate the turn of the millenium URY compiles the "Ultimate Student Chart" with "Bohemian Rhapsody" named the No.1 song. The station also organised its first gig featuring local and national bands called "Spark". |
| − | Computing Team currently maintains a guarantee on this filestore. The server it is stored on can tolerate disk failures and takes nightly snapshots of the data on it.
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| − | Deduplication technology is enabled on this filestore to reduce disk usage. The Archive folder for each area is also compressed.
| + | == 00s == |
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| − | At the end of each Membership Year, Computing Team will move Shows and People that have left into their respective Archive folders. Each Team will have all of the current contents of their folder moved into a subfolder labelled by academic year (e.g. 12-13 for the 2012-2013 academic year), which will then be compressed. Management Team is excepted from this.
| + | * '''2005''': URY wins the SRA Award for Best Student Station. |
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| − | == Temporary Filestores ==
| + | *'''2008''': URY celebrates its 40th birthday with a 2 week FM broadcast in May. |
| − | production and studio2 have hard drives which should be used when actively editing content locally. Once the work is finished, the final output should be stored on the General Filestore.
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| − | === Maintenance of this Filestore === | + | == 10s == |
| − | Computing Team make '''no promises''' about data stored here. This information is not backed up or otherwise fault tolerant.
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| − | At the end of each academic term, Computing Team will delete all data on these disks to promote correct usage of the General Filestore.
| + | * '''2011''': URY joins the UK Radioplayer service as one of the first stations to do so. |
| − | | + | * '''2012''': URY moves to a larger webcaster licence. At the same time, Tom Whitehouse ends his long tenure as Honorary President and is replaced. |
| − | == Central Music Library ==
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| − | This filestore is where all of URY's PPL licensed audio must be kept. No such audio may be stored '''anywhere else''' on URY's Filestores, as this is illegal. It is secured and access restricted as per the terms of our various licences. To upload resources to this filestore, please use [[Show Planner]].
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| − | === Maintenance of this Filestore ===
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| − | Computing Team have rigorous checks in place on this filestore, which is backed up daily. The filestore itself is not tolerant to a failure, however.
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| − | The physical space on which this filestore lives is shared with the Managed Resource/Personal Resource Libraries and the Podcast Archive.
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