Filesystems

Overview

The iCSF (Incline) shares home-directories with other compute systems such as the CSF – you will see the same files as your CSF account if you have one. Additional Research Data Storage areas are also available.

The temporary scratch filesystem is NOT shared with any other system – is it local to the iCSF.

File transfer

You may need to move files between iCSF and your desktop. Please see Copying files to and from compute systems for some examples of how to do this. Please be sure to use

incline.itservices.manchester.ac.uk

in place of:

csf3.itservices.manchester.ac.uk

when following the examples.

Backup and Restore

The home directories, and any additional Research Data Storage areas you may have access to, are backed up. If you delete a file, or make a change to it you no longer want, you can recover it yourself from the backups. Please see the CSF3 Backup and Restore instructions for detailed notes on how to recover your files. The CSF3 uses the same “Isilon” storage system as the iCSF, so the instructions are valid for the iCSF and CSF3.