Storage
isginf provides storage for different types of data and systems accessing them.
Personal and Project Data
isginf maintains a file server for file storage with NFS and SMB/CIFS connectivity with very high redundancy, replication of data and long data retention to minimize the risk of loss of data. This service is primarily intended for personal (home) directories and valuable, actively used project data.
isginf also uses it as back end for various services.
Home Directories
Every user with a user account in one of the research groups, institutes or units of the department receives a home directory on this file server. More information can be found [][here]].
Project Data
Each research group can have a project space. The default is 500GB for assistant professors and 1TB for tenured professors.
Scratch Data
We also maintain an alternative
scratch file server for people who are interested in high performance and large amounts of space rather than high availability and data safety. Data on this server is
not backed up but we still use high-grade hardware and RAID6 to store the data.
Archival
For archiving large sets of research data we are using the
ITS Long Term Storage.
Other Storage Solutions
For
research groups with special needs we can also provide dedicated storage solutions based on the following technologies:
