[ale] best way to copy 3Tb of data

DJ-Pfulio DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Tue Oct 27 15:27:22 EDT 2015


Send a budget estimate over to them for this "new requirement" and ask
when funding will be provided so you can schedule to procurement and
staffing.

Or perhaps that budget should be part of the HPC upgrade project?

;)


On 10/27/2015 11:24 AM, Todor Fassl wrote:
> I dunno.  First of all, I don't have any details on what's going on on
> the HPC cluster. All I know is the researcher says he needs to back up
> his  3T of scratch data because they are telling him it will be erased
> when they upgrade something or other. Also, I don't know how you can
> have 3T of scratch data or why, if it's scratch data, it can't just be
> deleted. I come across this all the time though. Researchers pretty
> regularly generate 1T+ of what they insist is scratch data.
> 
> In fact, I've had this discussion with this very same researcher. He's
> not the only one who does this but he happens to be the guy who i last
> questioned about it. You know this "scratch" space isn't backed up or
> anything. If the NAS burns up or if you type in the wrong rm command,
> it's gone. No problem, it's just scratch data. Well, then how come I
> can't just delete it when I want to re-do the network storage device?
> 
> They get mad if you push them too hard.
> 
> 


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