Network Drive Usage Policies
From NCEAS Knowledge Base
Things that you should keep on the Network Drive:
- Backups of your important documents, data, analytical scripts, email, etc.
Things that you should NOT put on the network drive:
- Backups of your Desktop, or (worse) full copies of your Documents and Settings folder-- these folders can contain any applications or other easily replaceable stuff that you might have installed to your desktop.
- Extensive amounts of personal items like MP3's, video, and pictures. Also, please do not keep illegal and copyrighted materials on our shared disk drives. Please copy these personal items to CD or DVD, or keep them on your local hard drive (ask one of us how to do this if you have any questions about burning a DVD, etc.)
- Disk images (eg CD ISO images) -- burn these to CD instead
- Duplicate copies of docs/data (no need to waste space)
Also some suggestions on freeing up existing space:
If you have accumulated lots of data and simulation results that you want to keep, consider compressing it if it is not actively being used. Compression of sparse matrices, for example, often shrink a file to 5% of its original size. Uncompressing a file takes seconds, but can save massive amounts of space in the meantime.
- You can use winzip on windows to do this or on Linux you can use the tar command with gzip combination.
- e.g. of tar with gzip on a directory called items_to_save: tar -czvf items_to_save items_to_save.tgz (this creates a file called items_to_save.tgz)to unzip with tar use this: tar -xzvf items_to_save.tgz
