Attic
When a new website is launched, if it is replacing an old website, IS&T creates a copy of the old website in the "attic"—a special, protected environment that is meant to preserve the old site content. Everything that was in the old website—including form entries, content, and the media library—is accessible from this storage site, which gives you a layer of protection when a new site launches. We can retrieve old content as needed from the attic if we find, after a site launches, that something is missing.
Only members of Interactive Design and IS&T have access to attic sites and can retrieve content on a case-by-case basis. You can also use the attic to help verify where a URL used to be, if you need to redirect a page.
Attic sites are usually found at cms-attic.bu.edu/your-site-url and are only meant to preserve text-based site content. As Interactive Design archives old themes, attic sites will revert to a default theme, and image paths may break. This is normal.