Data Storage Policy

1. M3

Two shared folder spaces: /bm14 (500Gb soft limit, backed up weekly/daily) and /bm14_scratch (not backed up, use for temp data only).
Use /projects/bm14/data on M3 as the primary storage facility to store raw data files. Make sure to read Miguel's README files!
M3 documentation on the user file system here

2. Server in room 217

Use this as secondary storage, if you want. Otherwise, M3 is preferred.
Two spinning disks: 500Gb in /scratch, 500 Gb in /data
No backup schedule in place[1]

3. Monash Shared Drive

Data recoverable up to 30 days
Best used to backup active project folders (scripts, manuscripts, etc), but not really large data files
Technically no storage limit, but this is they probably didn't foresee users asking to store hundreds of terabytes of data
Cumbersome to access via command line (needs to be mounted first[2])
All in all, not terribly useful.

Footnotes

[1] Because it's not really worth backing up data on the same machine (the point is to back up data on a different machine)
[2] Linux users: mount with smb or cifs. S: path is: //ad.monash.edu/shared. Desktop users: Link on how to mount the S: drive.