There is a data server meant to be used for intra- and intergroup data storing/sharing and personal backups. Its location is:

hclmbck.ifp.tuwien.ac.at

or via optical uplink

hclmbcko.ifp.tuwien.ac.at

It is located inside the institute's network, so one would need to use the TU VPN to access it from the outside (i.e. form the eduroam WLAN).

The data space is located at /mnt/data mount point and the total space consists of 145 TiB.
The disk quota per user is 5 TiB.
For more convenience, some global environment variables are defined:

$DATA    => /mnt/data
$ARCHIVE => /mnt/data/ARCHIVE
$BACKUP  => /mnt/data/BACKUP

$ARCHIVE  is assumed to be for prolonged storage and sharing of data meant to be accessible by all users. The data is meant to be reusable, so it's assumed to be customary to provide some README file describing the data.

$BACKUP is accessible only by owner and is meant to be used for the personal backups. For the backup solution that better suits your needs please check the following link.

There is a /mnt/data/TEMP directory which serves as a means of quick and dirty data sharing. Note that all files present there and older than 3 days will be automatically deleted.

By no means one should assume it's a permanent storage and for publications it is strongly advised to publish your data in one of the data repositories. On average one should assume 3-5 years of HDD lifespan and the employed RAID6 is there only to delay the consequences of aging of HDDs.

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