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For more details and user stories please refer to the website from SURF.
What? - The tape
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back-end and the Data Migration Facility (DMF)
Disk space capacity in the archive is handled by selecting which file systems the Data Migration Facility (DMF) will manage and by specifying the volume of free space that will be maintained on each files system. Space management begins with a list of user files that are ranked according to file size and file age.
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The Data Archive is designed to store large amounts of research data for long-term archiving.
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What can I store on the Data Archive?
The Data Archive is a storage facility for archiving research data and research data only. In principle, all data must be packed into larger files (see above).
In general the following is allowed:
- Data from your research project after it has completed
- Temporal storage of your research data during usage of computational facilities at SURF
- Identity files for authentication and authorization
- Configuration files of applications and tools used on the archive
What is not allowed:
- Unpacked research data sets (with many smaller files)
- Backups of your computer, phone or other peripherals
- Personal data not belonging to your research output
- Your music or photo collections
Obtain an account
We are pleased to help you with gaining access to the Data Archive, answer your questions or assist you to specific requests you may have about the service and SURF. Please just contact us by email via helpdesk@surfsara.nl or the portal on this pages.
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