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- Researchers should include the archiving costs in their grant budgets. Since most grants now require archiving and data sharing plans, this is a reasonable expense to include in a grant budget. Of course, ongoing grants might not have budgeted for archiving costs, so would need to look for other options. Pilot research projects also might not have a budget for archiving costs. Including archiving costs in grant budgets is the preferred funding mechanism, as it does not require UAMS funds.
- Research labs could include costs for archiving in their annual lab budgets.
- Departments might be willing to cover the costs for archiving data as part of their departmental budgets, for example as infrastructure costs (i.e. part of indirects).
Due to the nature of how OURRstore works, the data you archive could end up on any cartridge, or even be spread across multiple cartridges. Therefore, when you purchase cartridges, you are actually just purchasing an allotment of archival storage storage that is added to your quota, commensurate with the usable capacity of the cartridges, divided by 2 or 3, depending on which storage option that you choose (double or triple redundant).
Please coordinate with us on the shipping address and the specific model of LTO cartridges allowed. In fact, we are willing to put together the order for you, which might simplify things for you. OURRstore will not accept unapproved cartridges, and may not accept cartridges that are not shipped with an appropriately addressed shipping label. In addition, one has to provide to OURRStore materials for return shipping, including pre-paid shipping labels and arranging for pickup. Everything has to be exactly right in order to add cartridges to the OURRStore system. Currently only the following specific models of cartridges are allowed:
- IBM 38L7302 [LTO-7, formatted as Type M, 9 TB raw, ~7.6 TB usable]
- IBM 01PL041 [LTO-8, 12 TB raw, ~10.2 TB usable]
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If you have a means for covering the costs and agree to the data restrictions of OURRstore, please send an a request via e-mail to hpcadmin@uams.edu confirming that you agree to the terms, and requesting access. We will then work with you in archiving your data.
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Archiving data to OURRstore
Because of the need to collecting collect data into bundled, compressed archive files, we offer several options to assist users in archiving data. In the simplest option, you just create a directory tree or bucket where you place the data to be archved, and the HPC admins take care of bundling up the data for OURRstore. Or you can create the compressed archives yourself, and then ask the HPC Admins to transmit to OURRstore using the pooled account. Power users who want complete control of the process are welcome to work directly with the OURRstore team to get trained in using OURRstore, get a private account, and manage the archiving process themselves (not recommended, but possible).
Simple option for data on Grace (possibly the research NAS)
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