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| 3 | == Data Retention on Lustre == |
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| 5 | Your can lose access to your data on Lustre in either of the following ways. |
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| 7 | 1. You fail to read the data for at least one year - with the exceptions of any (relative path) directories **opt** and **conda-envs**. |
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| 9 | 2. The user ID of Principal Investigator (PI) associated with the data is no longer active. |
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| 11 | === Data inactivity === |
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| 13 | If any given data on Lustre has not been read in 1 year or more - with the exceptions of directories **opt** and **conda-envs**, then the owner and their PI will receive an email notification regarding data inactivity with a 30-day response window before data access removal. All access to the given data will be removed for 30-days prior to purging. (For example, see last access times in the results of the commands **ls -l --time-style=iso** and **man ls**.) |
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| 16 | Afterward, within the 30-day period, you can submit a request for [https://tulane.service-now.com/tulaneit?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=277b5905db004c10e8ce5bd2ca961945&sysparm_category=8d648d93dbc44c10f460562bdc9619ad&catalog_id=-1| Cypress HPC Consultation] to have access to your data on Lustre restored. Your request will be completed subject to the approval of your Principal Investigator (PI). |
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| 18 | === Inactive Tulane Status of Principal Investigator === |
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| 20 | If the Tulane email/LDAP status of the PI associated with any given data on Lustre has become “inactive”, then action similar to the above will be taken for the given data on Lustre. |
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| 22 | For further assistance, please submit a request for [https://tulane.service-now.com/tulaneit?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=277b5905db004c10e8ce5bd2ca961945&sysparm_category=8d648d93dbc44c10f460562bdc9619ad&catalog_id=-1| Cypress HPC Consultation]. |