Only DSC accounts with valid FSU accounts are backed up - temporary accounts, eg: wkshop01, are not backed up
SC provides centralized file storage via ZFS file system. The system provides a RAID-based storage to ensure against the loss of two disk drives.
Share file system provides home directories and research space for all desktops and pamd.
- Users have a fixed disk quota (see below) on their home directory,
which is based on our current backup capacity. As our backup capacity
increases, so will user quotas on home directories. Disk quotas are not
increased otherwise. - Users have other options if more disk space is needed than is
available in their home directory.
- Request a research partition by sending a message to
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . A research partition with a maximum capacity of 900 GB will be given to SC faculty members upon request. Research partitions are not backed up. Inactive research partitions will be reclaimed following confirmation from the faculty member.
Files over 500 MB are not backed up.
Users wishing to protect local files can save these files to the shared file system by mounting their user volume locally (via Samba, sshfs, scp, rsync or other mechanisms) and copying the important files to this directory.
To recover lost files from the last three weeks, please send a request to
No archival data beyond 21 days is maintained.
Backup Technology
The backup system consists of a 10 TB iSCSI configured in Raid 5 with a hot spare with a Dell 1950 acting as the hosting node. Backups are accomplished with rsync.
