Long-term archiving of your phantom calculations
One of the biggest headaches we have with shared supercomputer projects is that inevitably somebody fills whatever disk quota was allocated, and the project halts for everyone. A true tragedy of the commons. To solve this, shift your data somewhere more permanent.
Data curation
For calculations with phantom that have been published in a paper, best practice is to upload the entire calculation including .in and .setup files, .ev files and all dump files in a public repository.
See for example a dataset from Mentiplay et al. (2020) using figshare: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11595369.v1
Or this example from Wurster, Bate & Price (2018) in the University of Exeter repository: https://doi.org/10.24378/exe.607
Archiving your data to Google Drive using rclone
You can use rclone to copy data from a remote cluster or supercomputing facility to Google Drive. For universities with institutional subscriptions, this provides almost unlimited storage.
Set this up by logging into your supercomputer and typing:
$ rclone config
No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
name> dan-google-drive
Storage> drive
Google Application Client Id
See https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.
client_id> (enter client id you got from the instructions)
client_secret> (enter client secret you got from the instructions)
scope> drive
root_folder_id> (leave this blank)
Edit advanced config? (y/n) n
Use auto config?
y/n> n
Please go to the following link: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=...
(click on the link to approve)
Configure this as a team drive?
y/n> n
Check the above was successful by listing files on your remote drive using:
$ rclone ls dan-google-drive:
To COPY files to your google drive, LEAVING a copy on the local machine, you can then use:
$ rclone copy local_path remote_path
For example:
$ rclone copy $HOME/runs/phantom/disc-test1 dan-google-drive:phantom/disc-test1
To MOVE files to your google drive and DELETE them from the cluster (e.g. to clear disc space):
$ rclone move $HOME/runs/phantom/disc-test1 dan-google-drive:phantom/disc-test1
To SYNC an entire directory tree onto your google drive, DELETING files ALSO ON THE DRIVE you can then use:
$ rclone sync -i $HOME/runs dan-google-drive:runs