You will have received an email about scratch, which is a filestore that has been in use for a number of years such as on YARCC (the old university cluster) and the research machines.  Scratch is soon to be decommissioned.   We need you do the following;

- delete your data
- move to Viking
- move to Storage
- move to Vault

If none of these options suit please speak to your DCO regarding what options are available in the local department.

Below we have created a guide that help explore these options

Moving data from scratch to Viking

Please follow this link which describes how to copy data to Viking whether you are a windows or Linux user. Please note that the storage on Viking is not backed up and is not mounted on other university machines.  If you are using the research machines consider moving your data to Storage, the University's shared filestore service

Moving Data to Storage

Storage is the University's shared filestore service.   Each department has its own filestore on Storage.  Contact your DCO if you need space on your department's filestore.

The easiest way to move data from Scratch to Storage is to use the University interactive Linux servers research0/1/2/3 and teaching0/1. 

Scratch can be found at: /shared/scratch/hpc/users/

Storage filestores are at: /shared/storage/

Moving Data to Vault

Vault is our cold storage facility which is useful for storing data that needs to be kept but is unlikely to be accessed again.  There is no charge for storing data in Vault but there may be a charge for retrieving data.  More information here: 

https://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/services/vault/