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Working With Project Storage

Working with your Project Storage in SAFER

All Research Toolkits SAFER projects have a shared network attached storage volume that is available to all users within the SAFER project. All data and working files should only be stored within this storage volume and never on a SAFER VM. From research toolkits, user can see details about the storage, such as available space, and if backups are enabled. But to use the storage, you must be logged into the PN for research and access storage through your VM.

This storage is shared across all virtual machines for a project and is typically available as the p:\ drive or \project for linux VMs.

Once you are logged into your VM, you can access p:\ from file explorer as well as within application specific menus.

Within p:/ you will find the following shared storage folders:

  • Admin-Only: under development. This folder will be readable and writeable by any admin on the project. No other users on the project will have access into the folder.

  • Read-Only: This folder 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: Here, you can save any results or files you wish to export from SAFER for future reference or sharing.

Need more storage?

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

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 must be requested through Research Toolkits Help.

Data/File Backups

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:\ 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.

If a research project requires additional backups (30 days) or off-device backups, these can be requested through Research Toolkits Help and standard Research Computing rates (see: "Standard Speed -- NAS" charges) will be charged.