3  Storage

For additional details related to the illinois campus cluster, please the Storage and Data Guide

3.1 Storing Data & Code

  • Home Directory ~/
    • Up to ~5GB (Soft cap) / ~7GB (Hard cap) with nightly backups.
    • Storage is private.
  • Project Spaces /projects/stat/shared/$USER
    • ~21TB of shared space with nightly backups.
    • Storage is shared among stat members.
  • Temporary Networked Storage /scratch
    • ~10TB of space purged after 30 days with no backup.
    • Storage is private.

Soft caps: gently warn the user to lower their storage size. Hard caps: prevent the user from adding new files.

3.2 Backups

3.2.1 Backup Info

  • Daily night time backups.
  • 30 days of backups exist.
  • No off-site backups for disaster recovery.

3.2.2 Location of Backups

  • Home Directory ~/
/gpfs/iccp/home/.snapshots/home_YYYYMMDD*/$USER
  • Project Directory /projects/stat/shared/$USER
/gpfs/iccp/projects/stat/.snapshots/statistics_YYYYMMDD*