Mr Stephen Kolmann1, Mr Peter Ceiley1, Mr Christopher Albone1, Dr Andrew Janke1
1The University of Sydney, The University of Sydney, Australia
Biography:
Stephen has worked in the University's central IT department since 2016, where he supports the University's centrally-managed digital research services and helps with digital research projects. He completed his PhD in computational chemistry at the University of Sydney, where he was a user of both University-managed and national HPC systems.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2011-7068
Abstract:
We have accumulated research data for over a decade in our centrally-provided research data store (RDS) service, and some of the data belongs to research projects that have finished, but still require data to be retained. We wanted a way of storing this inactive data in a cheaper tier of storage, while empowering researchers to control their project’s data storage tier. We therefore created a new tier of research data storage that we call "RDS cold storage". During our migration to our current RDS platform, we identified data belonging to inactive projects, and instead of moving them to the new online RDS platform, we moved them into the new RDS cold storage service. Researchers were informed of the move and were sent instructions on how they could request projects be restored to active storage. To date, we have moved approximately 1.2 petabytes of inactive project data to RDS cold storage with very few complaints from researchers, and this has freed up our online storage for active projects.