Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF)
Long term secure storage for your research data
The Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF) allows you to securely store your University research data in the medium to long term.
Principal Investigators and academic data stewards are allocated up to 5 Terabytes (TB) of storage on the RDSF. You can use your allocation to store data from multiple research projects but you have to create a separate RDSF project for each one.
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Data Storage above 5 TB of data
If you need to store more than 5TB of data, please email: rdsf-help@bristol.ac.uk.
Wherever possible, the costs of storing your research data should be included in your research grant applications.
By factoring these costs into your grant, you support essential cost recovery, helping to sustain and enhance this critical research facility.
For guidance on when and how to include research data storage costs, please contact your local research costing specialist.
Where is the Research Data Storage Facility?
The RDSF is a set of disks and servers housed in two separate data centres on the University of Bristol campus, with regular back ups to tape storage both on and off site.
You can access your RDSF data from Windows, Mac or Linux.
The ACRC's HPC (High Performance Computing) systems also include the ability to keep your research data while it is needed for computation, but this data storage is not backed up and so we recommend you use the RDSF to keep a secure copy of research data which you cannot easily recreate.
For information about other data storage options at the University please see the main IT services pages about all the University filestores available to researchers.