Argus provides a large local dedicated performance optimized Temporary Storage per Argus VRD to hold 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 storage will be deleted up on user Sign out of VRD or will be deleted by relevant administrator 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 storage. 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 and /temporary_storage in Linux systems. 

Access Argus Temporary Storage

Access RCOS/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/SMB. Please refer to Research Data Store.

Argus Windows desktops - Temporary Storage

Argus Windows desktop temporary storage is SAN attached block storage, fine tuned for performance.

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 access.

Local client Pass-through storage

Local client drives (Linux, MAC and Windows) will be mapped to Argus VRD you are accessing, up on selecting "Read and Write" option from popup, when you access Argus-VRD for first time.

Note: File upload transfers from your local client pass-through drives to Argus-VRD's 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 local computer - 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 rsync to sync files between argus temporary storage and RCOS. 

Data transfer RCOS - Argus temporary storage

Process of copying files from RCOS to Argus temporary storage will be same as the process to copy files from RCOS to 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) 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 mapped drive to local temporary storage M drive.

For more information about mapping Classic RDS please refer to /wiki/spaces/RC/pages/229146744 user guide. To map Classic RDS project folder you need to check the box Connect using different credentials and use SHARED\<Unikey> and your password.

If you are using a Mac or Linux computer, you can also mount both your Classic RDS and Argus temporary storage and copy between the mount point and local temporary storage. Please refer to /wiki/spaces/RC/pages/229146744.