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backup analysis artifacts regularly

  • Obtain an allocation on All TACC users automatically have a 2 TB allocation TACC's ranch tape archive system
    • 10 TB a good initial numberlarger allocations can be requested by project owners in the TACC User Portal
    • free! and under-utilized
  • Periodically back up your corral or $WORK directories to ranch tape archive
    • large directories should be combined first using the tar program

distinguish between types of data

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  • Original sequence data (FASTQ files)
    • must be backed up!
  • Alignments
    • usually larger than original FASTQs
    • can be backed up once stable
  • Downstream analysis artifacts
  • Reporting artifacts (plots, plotting code)

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