Market Storage
Market storage (known as Market-file in the Data Dashboard) is a disk-based storage product that is designed to support research data that is accessed regularly (usually every day) by researchers. Market storage closely resembles the Monash University S Drive and is suitable for data that changes frequently and needs to be available for daily work but is too large to be stored on a local machine. Market storage can be presented as a desktop share/network drive (SMB) or can be mounted on a server (NFS). Access to the shares is controlled by a user group for SMB shares (via the University's GroupAdmin access group control), or by network address for NFS shares
Market storage uses disk capacity exclusively and provides fast and immediate access to files. Content written to Market will stay there until it is archived to a Vault allocation or is deleted. The data stored in Market is backed up once per day and thirty days of backups are stored. This means that individual file changes made over the course of a day cannot be recovered because only the last change made before the backup commences (usually overnight) will be retained. Data that has been deleted is generally retrievable within the 30-day backup window, however once deleted data is older than thirty days it will no longer be recoverable.
For collections larger than 10TB, a combination of Market storage (active data) and Vault storage (inactive data) is generally recommended. Market storage can be accessed by external collaborators using the Monash VPN, or via Aspera (a web-based service that is useful for sharing large amounts of data). Note that Market storage has less overall capacity than Vault storage and can be requested via the Data Dashboard.
Resources
- Market Storage User Guide
- Data Dashboard User Guide
- Guidelines for managing research data
- Electronic Information Security - Information Classification Procedure
Technical Information
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Protocols | SMB, NFS, SFTP |
| Supported Operating Systems | Windows1, macOS, Linux. |
| Security | Secure access groups (SMB) or specific machines (NFS) via hostname or IP. |
| Security Classification | Public, Restricted. |
| Backup Schedule | Daily, 30-day backup retention period. |
| Limits | Max. file size 2TB, Max. 100,000 files per directory |
Footnotes
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NFS is generally recommended only for macOS and Linux machines. ↩