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Re: Bio Image data retention

Posted by Kurt Thorn on Apr 16, 2013; 4:40pm
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Bio-Image-data-retention-tp7580193p7580194.html

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I'm not sure what the official policy is here, but the imaging center I
run does not do any long term data archiving. We leave this up to the
labs as we neither have the resources nor the expertise to provide long
term data storage for the many terabytes of data generated here.

We allow users to keep data on the microscope workstations for 30 days.
We maintain an 8 TB file server for data transfer and temporary storage
that we allow users to keep data on for 1 year. If we let users keep
data on there much longer it gets full so it seems like users generate
data at at least 6 TB/yr, which is a fair amount of data to store.

Kurt

On 4/16/2013 3:30 AM, Christopher Guerin wrote:

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> Hello everyone:
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> Can anyone let me know if you have an official institutional policy on the
> archiving/retention of bio imaging data? I'm particularly interested in an
> policies defining whose responsibility it is to retain unchanged raw data
> and for how long such data must be kept. Feel free to contact me off list if
> you prefer.
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> Many thanks,
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> Chris Guérin
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