Storage FAQs

What is the quota available to me?
  • Currently, there is a quota size of 3 TB for all hpcusers.
Is the cluster storage backed up?
  • We take daily incremental backups and monthly full backup of your data stored in HPC. The data is backed up to a LTO 6 robotic tape library. Depending on data size and number of tapes available, your data backup is stored for at-least 2 months, with-in which you may request for a retrieval.

    Please note that backup process starts at mid-night every day. If you lose your file(s) with-in few hours, we may not be able to retrieve it.
What is the best way to transfer a large amount of data onto a cluster?
  • Use rsync to copy data to the master node.