Data Archive

Long-term storage of research data

Do you want to store your data safely and long-term? The Data Archive is the perfect place for that, even if it involves petabytes. From the archive, you also have quick access to our computing services.

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Advantages

Safe

Want to store your data safely and for a long time? The Data Archive is the perfect place for that, even if it involves petabytes.

Long-term

In our Data Archive, you store your data for a longer period of time. It is not a backup system, but intended for storing data you are not actively using.

Easy access to computing services

For each project, you can specify how long we should keep the data and who can access it. This makes it possible for research groups or consortiums to access the data.

Do you have a question about the Data Archive? Get in touch.

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Long-term data storage

Our Data Archive stores your data for a longer period of time. It is not a backup system, but intended for storing data you are not actively using. For example, you can 'freeze' data belonging to an article, or store raw data that should remain available for future research.

Access

You transfer your data to the Data Archive via the internet. The Data Archive supports multiple protocols for data transfer, such as (HPN)SCP, SFTP, rsync and GridFTP. These protocols work in both Linux and Windows. You log in to the data archive via Secure Shell (SSH) and manage your data via the command-line.

Data management

For each project, you can specify how long the data should be kept and who has access to it. This makes it possible for research groups or consortiums to access the data. In principle, we use the B2SAFE guidelines for data management. In special cases, it is possible to deviate from these. We can then tailor a data policy using the iRODS data management system used by B2SAFE.

Data security

You can be confident that the research data and confidential information you store and process at SURF are in safe hands. This service has the ISO 27001 certificate. This means that we meet the high requirements of this international standard of information security.

Confidentiality

Do you have an account with SURF? All our accounts are personal and only accessible to you. You are responsible for managing your account and the data you store in it. Administrators have access rights to the stored data but only use them when necessary for management purposes. They have a duty of confidentiality and handle information and privacy with integrity in accordance with SURF's internal IT management rules and ISO 27001. SURF's data processor role can optionally be set out in a Service Level Agreement (SLA) or Digital Privacy Agreement (DPA).

Encrypting

Data are transferred encrypted using the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). We advise you to encrypt privacy-sensitive and personal data before sending so that the data is stored encrypted at SURF. This ensures that your data is also unreadable and uninterpretable by the administrators. You are responsible for encrypting and managing the encryption key. SURF cannot decrypt data once it has been encrypted!

We advise you to contact your institution's privacy officer or data protection officer in advance for information on data protection requirements.

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