Accessing recovered /projects data

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Hello CHTC users, 

 

This message is for HTC and HPC users with data in /projects folders. 

 

The data recovery process for /projects is complete. We believe we have recovered close to 100% of the data that was originally present in these directories. Some of the metadata for files (like file creation date) may be incorrect; we strongly recommend validating any data that you copy from the recovered file system. 

 

Accessing recovered data

• Any recovered data is available at this path: 
• /recovery/projects/<your project name>
• Users should copy any recovered files they want to save into their new /projects directories. 
• References to data using the paths to recovered project directories should not be used in job submission. The directories for recovered data are read-only, and you will not be able to write into them. 
• Data in the recovery file system will be available through February 2025. 

 

If your directory doesn’t exist in the recovery path, that means that none of your data was recovered. 

 

If you have a group or project directory, it needs to be recreated via a request to our Quota Request form. Note that these directories are new, empty directories, to be used for your data moving forward. You will be able to copy any recovered data into these directories. https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/uw-research-computing/quota-request.html 

 

Staying Updated

 

These updates have been posted on our website and status page: 

• Website: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/uw-research-computing/data-recovery-fall2024 
• Status page: https://status.chtc.wisc.edu/ 

 

At this point, we have completed the data recovery process for all file systems impacted by the November outage. We will send a short post-mortem and final steps to this list in the next few weeks. 

 

As always, please contact us at chtc@xxxxxxxxxxx with any particular concerns or questions. 

 

Best,

Your CHTC team