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- Obtain an allocation on TACC's shared
workfile system or corral disk array (initial 5 TB are no-cost) - Stage your active projects on corral or $WORK
- copy data to $WORK or $SCRATCH for analysis
- copy important analysis products back to corral or $WORK
- Periodically back up corral or $WORK directories to ranch tape archive
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- Obtain an allocation on TACC's ranch tape archive system
- 10 TB a good initial number
- free! and under-utilized
- Periodically back up your corral or $WORK directories to ranch tape archive
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Artifacts from different stages of the analysis will have different archival requirements.
- 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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