/scratch and /software on Setonix do not provide permanent storage space for research data.
The data that needs to be stored longer than just a few weeks should be copied to the Acacia object storage service.
Acacia provides a platform that you can use to store your data as long as your Pawsey project is active.
There are two types of accounts available on Acacia, user and project.
Pawsey user accounts come with a 100GB allocation.
All active projects with Pawsey supercomputing, Nimbus research cloud, and Visualisation projects have an allocation of at least 1TB.
Acacia is built upon the open-source software Ceph. Instead of files, your data is stored as objects in buckets:
Buckets are the basic containers that hold your data.
Everything you store in Acacia must be contained in a bucket.
Unlike folders, you cannot nest buckets or put one bucket inside another.
Objects are the individual pieces of data contained in a bucket.
An object is typically a file and any metadata that describes the file.
Objects cannot be changed while in the storage system.
To change an object, you must first download, modify, and then upload it again.