File Storage
There are several places on our system where users may store data.
- Every user has a home directory on one of our many unix servers in one of /home/uga, /home/ugb, /home/ugc, /home/grads, /home/profs,
/home/staff, /home/research - Users with Windows PC access (faculty, graduate students, staff and those undergrads registered in specific CPSC courses) have a W: drive which resides on one of our Windows servers
- Faculty and graduate students also have access to "scratch" and "archive" space as described below
Windows and Unix home directories are backed up regularly, as is "archive" space. Anything stored outside of these locations (on a local machine, in "scratch" space, etc.) is not backed up. Please read here for more backup information.
Quotas
Disk quota is the amount of storage space allocated to a user. Undergrad accounts are assigned disk quota on both their Unix and Windows accounts. The amount of quota is determined each semester by the number and types of courses in which they are registered.
If an undergrad has been assigned insufficient disk space to complete course work, then a request for increased quota must be submitted to technical support from one of their professors.
To view your Unix quota limits and usage:
quota -v
To view your Windows quota limits and usage:
From Explorer, right click on your W: drive and select "Properties".
Faculty, graduate students and staff have no imposed quotas and must be self policing. In the event of a filled disk, a usage report will be generated and the top consumers will be asked to clean up immediately.
Scratch Space
We have additional disk space available for storage of non-critical data. This is an ideal place to keep files that don't need to be backed up, but must be easily accessible.
This service is available to faculty, graduate students and staff. Undergraduates do not have access to this space.
This disk space is NOT backed up.
This disk space is accessible directly from your unix account as/home/scratch/username
You may also setup a symbolic link from your home directory with the following command:
ln -s /home/scratch/username ~/scratch
From Windows, you may access this space by mapping the network drive as \\nse\scratch\username. You may also add it as a permanent addition to your login by choosing the "Reconnect at logon" option in the "Map Network Drive" dialogue. Please read here for more detailed instructions on how to map a network drive.
The disk currently has 3TB of space available.
Archive Space
We have additional disk space available for archiving data. This is an ideal place to keep files that are no longer accessed with any frequency but are important enough that they need to be backed up.
This service is available to faculty, graduate students and staff. Undergraduates do not have access to this space.
This disk space is accessible directly from your unix account as /home/archive/username
You may also setup a symbolic link from your home directory with the following command:
ln -s /home/archive/username ~/archive
From Windows, you may access this space by mapping the network drive as \\nse\archive\username. You may also add it as a permanent addition to your login by choosing the "Reconnect at logon" option in the "Map Network Drive" dialogue. Please read here for more detailed instructions on how to map a network drive.
The disk currently has 5.7TB of space available.