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Working with your Project Storage in the PNR

Every PNR project includes a shared network-attached storage volume mounted on your VM. This guide explains the four standard folders (admin, read_only, read_write, transfer), how to request more space, and how the daily snapshot system protects against accidental deletion.

All Research Toolkits PNR projects have a shared network attached storage volume that is available to all users within the PNR project.

Where to keep your data

All data and working files should only be stored within this storage volume and never on a PNR VM.

From Research Toolkits, users can see details about the storage, such as available space. But to use the storage, you must be logged into the PNR and access storage through your VM.

This storage is accessed via all virtual machines for a project and is available as the P:\ drive for Windows CMs or /share/data/ for Linux VMs.

Once you are logged into your VM, you can access P:\ drive or or /share/data/ from File Explorer as well as within application-specific menus.

Shared Storage Folders

Within P:/ drive or /share/data/ you will find the following shared storage folders:

  • Admin

    Readable and writeable by any admin on the project. No other users on the project will have access into the folder.

  • Read-Only

    Typically houses the sensitive data you're working with. As the name implies, data here can be accessed but not modified.

  • Read-Write

    Each team member is recommended to save their code and resources here. This folder is structured with subfolders, where each subfolder corresponds to a team member's NetID.

  • Transfer

    Save any results or files you wish to export from the PNR for future reference or sharing.

Need more storage?

Shared project storage of 100GB is provided by default to all projects in the PNR.

Storage can be increased by project admins using the pencil icon next to the storage service in Research Toolkits:

Storage can be increased to 200GB at no charge. If more storage is needed, a fund code can be entered and standard Research Computing rates (see "Standard Speed — NAS" charges) will be charged.

Increases greater than 10TB

Increases greater than 10TB must be requested through Research Toolkits Help.

Snapshots

All project storage automatically have snapshots enabled to help protect data from accidental deletion by a project user. Once a day a "snapshot" of the current P:\ drive is created and stored in a hidden .snapshot directory. Seven days of snapshots are retained.

To restore a file from a .snapshot, the user must find the file/directory they would like to restore and copy out just that file/directory into their normal working folders.

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