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Pending a storage investment expiration
UFIT Research Computing actions
- Notice is sent to the investor one month before expiration. If this would result in no quota, additional warnings are added to the notice.
- Repeat notices will also be sent at two weeks, one week, and one day before expiration.
Recommended Sponsor Actions
- Invest into sufficient storage resources to contain the current and future data.
- Remove a sufficient amount of data to contain the usage within the new quota.
After a storage investment expiration
If the group still has a storage quota
UFIT Research Computing Actions
- The group will be unable to write to the respective storage system until the sponsor takes action. Automatic data removal procedure will not activate.
Recommended Sponsor Actions
- Invest into storage resource to increase the storage allocation.
- Remove data to reduce the use within the new quota.
- Notify UFIT Research Computing that the data is abandoned.
If all investments have expired and no active storage allocation remains
UFIT Research Computing Actions
- Immediate automatic notification/portal alert: Notification sent to sponsor and co-sponsors/admins that data cannot be written and will become inaccessible but recoverable in two weeks.
- At two weeks, the data is made inaccessible and invisible to users and retained for two additional weeks.
- Four weeks after expiration UFIT Research Computing staff reserve the right to delete the data without the possibility of data recovery.
Recommended Sponsor Actions
- Invest into storage resources to increase the storage allocation.
- Confirm that the data is not needed and will be removed with no possibility of recovery.
