We strongly recommend that you back up your raw data to hard drives with multiple bays, NAS or even better to a tape system before you start analysing the data. Euler should be not used as a data archive. The GDC volume on HPC Euler is intended for medium-term storage. After an analysis has been finished, we highly recommend to transfer your data to your long term storage (LTS) to preserve it in a long term perspective. Here you find our GDC Data Management Policy. We can help you finding optimal archiving solutions for you data.

Important aspects that you should consider when you are archiving your data

• Clean up your files and folders before archiving.
• Archive your files and folders (tar or tar.gz).
• Archive raw and processed data separately.
• The size of one archive should be between 200 Gb and 500 Gb.
• Keep metafiles and scripts on your local computer.
• Deposit raw data on public archives like ENA or NCBI.
• Use hard drives with multiple bays (e.g. RAID system).
• ETH is offering long-term storage solutions and people from eawag can use ERIC.
• OpenBis can be used to automatically archive your data. Find more information here.