User area quota and AUPs

[JPS]

Hi guys

 

Situation here is we are in BSF and our managed IT service commences in September. We are having a (near enough) complete overhaul of the network, which amongst other things has provided an opportunity to look at things like size of user areas and AUPs.

 

What I am after is:

 

- What sort of limits do you apply to user (staff and students) areas (obviously some exceptions depending on subjects studied, ie multimedia courses etc)?

 

- Do you use 'soft quotas' and/or would you recommend this?

 

- An AUP that could be issued to staff and students (probably slightly different ones for each) that would include a section that could be signed, returned and to be held on record.

 

- Do you have a policy where you only enable their account once you have received the signed form?

 

Any help or contributions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

James

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Y7-Y6 - 1GB

Y7-Y9 - 5GB

Y10-Y13 - 10GB

Staff - 20GB

 

They get hard quota's, and that's the limit we stick on and do not expand on them for anyone

[JPS]

Thanks nephilim. To me that sounds quite a bit, have you got an enormous amount of storage, or perhaps quite a small school?

 

We have 1600 students in all (Y7-13) and approx 250 staff.

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We have a couple of NAS boxes totalling up to 100TB

[JPS]

We have a couple of NAS boxes totalling up to 100TB

 

That makes sense then. I was thinking about 250-500Mb for 'normal' students and then making exceptions for our 6th formers studying multimedia and IT.

[5tu]

We have a couple of NAS boxes totalling up to 100TB

 

What do you backup that lot on to?

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external data centre facility provided by county