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| * Data areas on our ZFS storage have nightly // | * Data areas on our ZFS storage have nightly // | ||
| * Linux RAID storage does not have snapshots. | * Linux RAID storage does not have snapshots. | ||
| - | * If you have critical research data which requires backup, | + | * If you have critical research data which requires backup, |
| * Local data drives in workstations are **never** backed up. | * Local data drives in workstations are **never** backed up. | ||
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| - | ===== Remote access to file systems using sshfs ===== | + | ===== Remote access to data ===== |
| - | You can use //fuse// (the userspace filesystem driver) to mount any remote filesystem which you have ssh access to. You can use this to access files from other systems | + | The security model of Unix NFS is too weak to permit exporting it to any systems which are not part of the Physics cluster. Some alternative methods of transferring data include... |
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| + | ==== globus ==== | ||
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| + | Please see [[: | ||
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| + | ==== sshfs ==== | ||
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| + | You can use //fuse// (the userspace filesystem driver) to mount any remote filesystem which you have ssh access to. Although this is not a high-performance solution, you can use this to access files from non-Physics linux systems. For example: | ||
| mkdir ~/mnt #create a place to put it, can be called anything you want. | mkdir ~/mnt #create a place to put it, can be called anything you want. | ||