Storage FAQ

• Troubleshooting your connection to Storage

• How do I know what Wash U Network I or my lab is on?

• What are the ways I can access data in the Storage Service?

• What are the Storage and Archive policies?

Troubleshooting your connection to Storage

If you are experiencing issues maintaining a stable connection to your storage allocation, please visit the storage service troubleshooting page.

• Troubleshooting Connection to the Storage Service

How do I know what Wash U Network I or my lab is on?

The RIS team supplies a Speedtest application that will report the IP address of the browsing computer. Visit the Speedtest URL.

What are the ways I can access data in the Storage Service?

At the time of this writing, you can access storage service Allocations via:

• SMB mounts from MacOS, Linux, and Windows.

• Globus Data Transfer endpoints.

• POSIX filesystem access within the RIS Compute Service (See the RIS Compute Service).

What are the Storage and Archive policies?

• These policies can be found here.