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# What's the point of doing a simulation if you are going to loose all the data (and their analyses) due to a hard disk failure ? _None_ # What is the probability of a hard disk failure given enough time ? <u>1.0</u> # What is the probability according to Murphy's law that the 'enough time' above will coincide with the day that your simulation and analyses finish ? <u>1.0</u> Points 1, 2 and 3 above imply that == Data loss due to missing backups is unacceptable behaviour (and a hanging offence) == Now you know. There are two types of backups that you will have to use. The first is backing-up all data and files from your simulation (which are located in /work). You should do this immediately after your simulation is finished /and then delete the files/. The reason is that the simulation files are located on the server disk, which will get full very quickly if people do not backup and delete their files. <b>If you do not (backup and then) delete your files from /work, someone else will.</b> The second type of backup is to save all files in your home directory. The procedures are : * [[Backing-up molecular dynamics simulation data]] * [[Backing-up your home directory]]
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