Bluemoon and DeepGreen
We continue to invest in backups for data stored on gpfs1. We provide daily backups, copied to a data recovery location, and are generally able to retain the last 7 days, 4 weeks of weekly backups, and 3 months of monthly backups, although there is some fluctuation based on overall usage. If you need files recovered from backups, please email us at vacc@uvm.edu with details about what files or directories you need recovered and from what time.
gpfs2 is considered scratch space. That means there are NO BACKUPS taken of gpfs2, which is linked to a scratch folder in your home directory. Disk quotas are higher in gpfs2/scratch, so it’s great for large temporary or intermediate files.
DeepGreen
gpfs3 is available as scratch space and is comprised of 192TB of NVMe SSD, replicated to provide a 96TB filesystem. This is scratch space and has NO BACKUPS. Old data may be flushed occasionally.