File Storage Location

Research file storage space for faculty member gets increased to 300GB !

Disk space on ENCS network drives (also described as network shares) is allocated based on your account type and the groups you are in. Disk quota applies to each segment of disk space, and it is not transferable between segments. To access your disk space from Windows, use your ENCS account to map the network drive. In Unix/Linux, simply change to the directory where the disk space is located by using the "cd" command. The disk space to which you are entitled can be determined using the following table.

Type of account and the disk space entitled

Type of Account/Type of Space	PERSONAL SPACE			Disk Space Used For Research	GROUP SPACE
	Basic Space (drive G,W & U)	INBOX	Thesis Space		Admin /Role Account Space	Course Support Space	Course Project Space	Research Group Space
Ugrad/Guest/ M Eng	1GB	87MB (See note 8)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	See note 6	N/A
M.A.Sc/Ph.D	1GB	87MB (See note 8)	500MB	See note 3	N/A	N/A	See note 6	See note 7
Full-time Staff	30GB	87MB (See note 8)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Full-time Faculty	30GB	87MB (See note 8)	1GB	See note 3	N/A	See note 5	N/A	1GB (See note 7)
Admin/Role Account	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	10 GB (See note 4)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Course Account	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1 GB (See note 5)	N/A	N/A
Course Project	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	200 MB (See Note 6)	N/A
Research Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1 GB (See note 7)

Notes:

1. Basic Space: This is the default disk space assigned when your personal account is created. It is in three locations: the Windows home (drive G), the Unix home (drive U) and the Web directory (drive W). The disk quota for this space is established in function of your status in ENCS, and cannot be increased.

2. Thesis Space: All MASC and PHD graduate students get 500MB of extra space for their research work. Full-time faculty members who are supervising thesis students get an additional 1GB of space, which is not transferable to students.

3. Disk Space Used For Research: The disk space for research purpose, PROFESSOR_USERNAME_FACDISK, should be allocated from the professor's private space(300GB so far)

4. Admin /Role Account Space: This space exists for the purpose of administration support. Thus, it is available upon request to a departmental chair, departmental administrator, and so on. The "account" associated with this space cannot be used for interactive logins to any ENCS system. It serves for sharing files among the group members (possibly only one person) and for e-mail if desired.

5. Course Support Space: This space contains the course material created the instructor. The "account" associated with this space cannot be used for interactive logins. The files saved in this space are archived after the end of each term and made available to the other professors in the same department, unless the current instructor decides to remove his/her course material.

6. Course Project Space: This space is used by students who require extra space for a course project. It is created for the students upon the request of the course instructor. The group "account" associated with this space cannot be used for interactive logins. Once the course is finished, this space is deleted. A course project account can be assigned to a single student, or be shared among several students working cooperatively.

7. Research Group Space: This space is made available to research groups in order to allow a basic presence within the ENCS structure (for example a web page to represent the group, filesharing space for cooperative work on documents, and so on). The space is in the standard group area and the professors can get 1 GB of space as a default. Any request more than that needs to be negotiated.

8. INBOX : Default incoming mail spool (Inbox), 87 MB quota (no exceptions). This space is usually accessed via the IMAP protocol (a mail reading agent or webmail). Direct access is possible only from the host login.encs.concordia.ca.

Location of the disk space

Users can access these network shares in both Unix/Linux and Windows. The Unix paths and Windows drive folders are listed below.

Network Share		Windows Drive Letter	Quota	Unix Path	Windows Drive Folder
PERSONAL	Windows Home	G:	Shared same diskspace for G,U & W drives	/winhome/FL*/ENCS_USERNAME	\\filer-users.encs.concordia.ca\ENCS_USERNAME
	Unix/Linux Home	U:		/home/FL*/ENCS_USERNAME	\\filer-users.encs.concordia.ca\unix\FL*\ENCS_USERNAME
	Web Home	W:		/www/home/FL*/ENCS_USERNAME	\\filer-users.encs.concordia.ca\web\FL*\ENCS_USERNAME
	INBOX			/var/spool/mail/FL*/ENCS_USERNAME
	Thesis Space	T		/thesis/FL*/ENCS_USERNAME	\\filer-thesis.encs.concordia.ca\v_thesis\thesis_unix\FL*\ENCS_USERNAME
Disk Space for Faculty		R		/private/FL*/ENCS_USERNAME	\\filer-facdisk.encs.concordia.ca\fac_FL*\ENCS_USERNAME
GROUP	Admin Group Space (Role Account)	Q:		/admin/groups/FL*/ENCS_GROUPNAME	\\filer-admin.encs.concordia.ca\v_admin\admin_unix\FL*\ENCS_GROUPNAME
	Group Account Home Space	S	Shared same diskspace	/groups/FL*/ENCS_GROUPNAME	\\filer-groups.encs.concordia.ca\v_groups\groups_unix\FL*\ENCS_GROUPNAME
	Group Account Web Space	X		/www/groups/FL*/ENCS_GROUPNAME	\\filer-groups.encs.concordia.ca\v_groups\groups_web\FL*\ENCS_GROUPNAME
	Course Support Space		Shared same diskspace	/teaching/groups/FL*/ENCS_GROUPNAME	\\filer-teaching01.encs.concordia.ca\v_teaching\teaching_groups\unix\FL*\ENCS_GROUPNAME
	Course Account Web Space			/www/teaching/groups/FL*/ENCS_GROUPNAME	\\filer-teaching01.encs.concordia.ca\v_teaching\teaching_groups\web\FL*\ENCS_GROUPNAME
Temporary Storage Space		H:		/nettemp	\\filer-nettemp.encs.concordia.ca\nettemp

Where FL*, depending on the context, can be is the first letter of your ENCS USERNAME or the first letter of your ENCS GROUPNAME.

It is up to the user to name the Windows drive letter where no drive letter is given in above table. You can access the network shares by mapping them to Windows drive letters on your PC.

Here are three examples for faculty,  staff and student.

Example 1 - for student

Example 2 - for faculty

Example 3 - for staff

Backups of Your Files

All ENCS users can access the on-line backup system, which creates 'snapshots' (read-only copies of your files) at regular intervals. You can recover files that have been deleted or modified by copying files from the snapshot directory to your home directory.

NOTE: Only the network shares are backed up by the system. The files in local drive, such as drive C:, are NOT backed up. Once they are gone, they are gone.