Hi,
I have ~1.5 TB
of analysis data on my home computer related to my PhD work, which I
completed last year. I would like to put this data in long-term storage in
the cloud. I will retain a backup on an external hard drive, which I will
keep at home. But I'm looking for an additional backup in another location
(the other location being, ideally, the cloud). These files are not
themselves MD trajectories from my PhD, but rather are output and analyses
related to the trajectories. (The trajectories themselves are tens of TB
and are being retained, for now, by my university.)
Does anyone have experience with archiving
scientific data on cloud storage services such as AWS S3, AWS S3 Glacier,
Microsoft Azure, or iDrive?
I realize this is the Computational Chemistry List,
not the Information Technology List, but I'd be grateful for any insight
you may have from the perspective of a computational chemist.
I will be paying for this myself, so
the service needs to be reasonably priced for a single user for ~5-10 TB or
less. It's not immediately clear to me whether all of these
services are really available to individuals.
I don't need fancy features like automatic backup,
delta copying, and so forth; I just need a place to safely store some
files. I use Linux for running computation, but I'm not an IT expert
by any means; I am willing to learn, though, especially when good documentation
is available! And, clearly, transferring ~1.5 TB to the cloud is itself a
nontrivial task, but I'm willing to see what the options are.
Here are some links to some seemingly
popular services in my country (US), but perhaps there are others more
particularly suited for scientific data:
Thank you for your time!
Best,
Andrew
Andrew DeYoung,
PhD
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon
University