University of Bristol

Centralised Backed-Up Storage

On your Windows PC you will have two personal filespaces available. These will be mapped as V: and O:

The V: drive is your personal filespace on the departmental fileserver called Hyperion. Access to hyperion is available via samba, SSH & SCP.

In addition the folder public_html contains your personal webspace. There is a template Welcome.html which forms the basis for your site.

If you have a Linux desktop then this space is accessible via the link "hyperion" in your home directory.

The O: drive is a University wide service introduced in Sept 2011 for all students and staff called 'MyFiles'

This will be available to you on any University Windows PC.

Users of the scone system have their home directories shared across all the scone compute nodes. This is a a fast RAID array 3TB in size.

You may transfer your files to & from SCONE using one of the following methods.

Using ssh to transfer files using the windows ssh client
Using samba to map a network drive on windows. The share name is \\scone.maths.bris.ac.uk\homes
Using a samba mount on Linux. The command is (as root)
mount -t smbfs-o username=<username> //scone.maths.bris.ac.uk/homes </mountpoint>
You will be prompted for your UOB password. Your particular distribution may provide tools for mounting samba filesystems as a non-root user.
Using scp on Linux.

Further information on Scone is available here