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You are a Wash U Research Faculty member, or a member of a research team.
You have a Wash U WorkDay Cost Center Number.
You have a WUSTL Key ID.
Visit the RIS Service Desk, the Storage Service section, and begin a Service Request for a new Allocation.
If you are a Faculty member requesting personal space, the Allocation Name will match your WUSTL Key ID.
If you represent a “Research Lab” you can name the allocation after your Lab Name. If so, indicate the name in your Service Request
Indicate the Storage Amount, this is a quota or size limit to the total requested amount of space.
Indicate members of an Access List, this is a list of WUSTL Key IDs that should have access to your storage.
Indicate if you intend to store Protected Data (eg. Personal Health Information, etc.) in your storage allocation.
Indicate your WorkDay Cost Center Number.
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The backup policy for both Active and Archive data has been fully vetted and approved by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office for Information Security.
The research storage infrastructure has been deemed compliant with all data retention guidelines.
Integrated into the storage environment is a high performance and scalable tape robot that manages a tape library of 18 petabytes, which allows the shuttling of data from live disk to much less expensive tape and back again on demand.
- For both Active and Archive filesets, data remains on tape indefinitely unless it has been deleted on disk. Active data remains on tape for 90 30 days after the data has been deleted from disk.
If the data is never deleted from disk, then it remains on tape indefinitely with incremental backups.
Data in Archive also remains on dual copy tape indefinitely unless it is deleted, then it remains on tape for 10 days.
The research storage environment also offers self-service, snapshot data recovery for 7 days.
The preferred method of completed project retention is to request an Archive allocation and once a project is completed, the data can be moved from Active to Archive.
If the data needs to be accessed again after moved to Archive it can migrated back to Active, and it will be restored from tape to disk.
The preferred method of moving data between Active and Archive is to use tar or zip the data and use rsync for movement.
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Visit the RIS Service Desk, then on the left, click the Storage Platform section, and begin a Service Request for a new Allocation by selecting Activate a new storage allocation.
If you are a Faculty member requesting personal space, the Allocation Name will match your WUSTL Key ID.
If you represent a “Research Lab” you can name the allocation after your Lab Name. If so, indicate the name in your Service Request
Indicate the Storage Amount, this is a quota or size limit to the total requested amount of space.
Indicate members of an Access List, this is a list of WUSTL Key IDs that should have access to your storage.
Indicate if you intend to store Protected Data (eg. Personal Health Information, etc.) in your storage allocation.
Indicate your WorkDay Cost Center Number.
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Known Limitations
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The Storage Service includes a feature set documented in these pages. Each feature or capability has limitations or caveats.
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