Data exchange
CIFEX – the service for exchange of large amounts of data with external partners – will was decommissioned on 01.12.2021. If you want to exchange large amounts of data with external partners use polybox SWITCHfilesender OneDrive
Category: Storage
Home drive
Accessing personal data Your usual data and network shares are available when you log in with your nethz-account from any managed computer. Your home directory will be mapped to the same network drive as you are used to. Additionally, you can map any CIFS or SMB Network share the same way you would do it […]
Group public drive
Group Folders The consolidated location for group and project data is \\d.ethz.ch\groups\itet\group name. You can find the name list of the group folders at https://blog.s4d.ethz.ch/nas-nomenclature/ The group folder is connected automatically when you work with a managed device.
NAS nomenclature
Windows: Map network drive
Accessing Shares Open “File Explorer” next to the “Start” button. Select “Computer”. In order to connect to a folder click on “Map network drive” at the top of the window. Alternatively you can right click on “This PC” in the sidebar and select “Map network drive…”. A new window pops up where you can […]
Windows: Recover deleted files
Backup A backup of the home directory is made daily by TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) with a 3 month retention time. There is no backup for data stored on local disks. Previous Versions Additionally, 4 snapshots (checkpoints, aka previous versions) are taken on the home folders during 16 working days. As soon as a file of folder […]
Connect to a remote folder (macOS)
In the Finder, choose Go > Connect to Server Type the network address for the folder in the server address field: Enter your ETH user name in the authentication window and confirm with “connect”:
Using external Cloud Services
If not else confirmed, any data, uploaded on an external cloud provider, gets basically stored in a data center that can be located everywhere on the world. This aspects collide with the ETH compliance regulations that describes some stipulations regarding different classes of data. A further aspect of using external cloud providers is, that a […]