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  • At TACC
    • Obtain an allocation on TACC's corral disk array (initial 5 TB are no-cost)
    • Stage your active projects on corral or $WORK2$WORK
      • copy data to $SCRATCH for analysis
      • copy important analysis products back to corral or $WORK2$WORK
    • Periodically back up corral or $WORK2 directories to ranch tape archive
  • On a UT Biomedical Research Support Facility (BRCF) "POD"
    • See https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/RCTFusers
      • Home and Work areas on POD servers are automatically backed up weekly
        • and archived to ranch every 4-6 months
    • GSAF customers can obtain a no-cost 2 TB allocation on the shared GSAF POD

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  • All TACC users automatically have a 2 TB allocation TACC's ranch tape archive system
    • larger allocations can be requested by project owners in the TACC User Portal
    • free!
  • Periodically back up your corral or $WORK2$WORK directories to ranch tape archive
    • large directories should be combined first using the tar program

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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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