Argus provides a large, local, dedicated performance optimized Temporary Storage per Argus VRD to hold , performance-optimised, temporary storage for each VRD to store research data while it is being accessed and processed by the Desktop. As with Artemis’s equivalent scratch volume, this is considered a temporary holding space and is limited in size. Users are advised to move any data they have here to Research Data Store (RDS) once finished working with it. Data in Argus-VRD Temporary temporary storage will be deleted up on user Sign after signing out of the VRD, or will be deleted by relevant administrator system administrators without notice (when desktop temporary storage is full). Users are advised to save their data on to University's central File Storage system (RDS) before Sign Out and empty temporary storageRDS, then delete data from temporary storage before signing out. Data on Argus VRD's is not backed up and ICT Research or Argus VRD participating units will not be responsible for loss of your data on Argus VRD.
Argus VRD temporary storage is provisioned as M: in windows Windows and /temporary_storage in Linux systems.
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Access Argus Temporary Storage
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RDS Projects from Argus Linux desktops
Once your nominated RCOS/ RDS project folder is provisioned you can access your project folder from Argus-VRD via SFTP /SMBfor RCOS or by mapping a network drive (SMB) for Classic RDS. Please refer to Research Data Store guide for more information.
Argus Windows desktops - Temporary Storage
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Argus Windows desktops Temporary storage is mapped as M: to the desktops. This storage is local to the desktop and will be available only on Argus VRD you accessisn't available to any other Argus desktop.
Local client Pass-through storage
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Note: File upload transfers from your local client pass-through drives to Argus-VRD's VRDs can be slow. This depends on your internet upload speeds from your local client to Argus VRD Desktop hosted in a Datacentre.
Data Transfer
You can copy data to and from your local computer, RDS, Artemis and Argus VRD Temporary Storage. As the name suggest Argus temporary storage is temporary storage space to work with your data.Temporary storage is used as a staging place to store your data to perform data analytics instead of touching original data set (where applicable).
The data transfer ‘directions’ available to you are:Data transfer your
Your local computer
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to Argus temporary storage
- To transfer your data to and from local computer or Argus VRD, you can connect to RCOS (or RCOS-INT) using Filezilla, CyberDuck or command-line SFTP. You can follow the steps in the Research Data Store guide.
- Using Filezilla, once connected to RCOS servers you can navigate to your project folder in RCOS to copy files to temporary storage on Argus-VRD.
- To transfer data between Argus temporary storage and your local computer, drag and drop files between the left-hand side (local files) and the right-hand side (Argus temporary storage).
- If you are using a Argus Linux desktop you can also use
rsyncto sync files between argus Argus temporary storage and RCOS.
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RCOS
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to Argus temporary storage
Process of copying Copying files from RCOS to Argus temporary storage will be same as the process to copy is similar to copying files from RCOS to your local client computer. However, you will benefit getting better speeds as Argus VRD's are connected to 100 Gbps capable core switches. For more information on connecting to RCOS please refer to the Research Computing Optimised Storage (RCOS) SFTP access to the Research Data Store user guide.
Data transfer Classic RDS - Argus temporary storage (M:)
To transfer your data between Classic RDS and Argus temporary storage, you can simply map Classic RDS folder/s to Windows Argus VRD and drag-and-drop your files between the mapped drive to and the local temporary storage M drive.
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