Faculty (and others who are eligible) can request their ResearchDrive space by filling out the ResearchDrive Request Form. It will then be created by the ResearchDrive team.

Graduate students and others who need to store research data should talk with an advisor, supervisor, or another faculty member about using their ResearchDrive space. Faculty, we are counting on you to make sure all graduate students can store their data in ResearchDrive.

Giving Someone Access to Your ResearchDrive

While it's possible to manage your own ResearchDrive permissions using Manifest, we recommend you let SSCC staff manage them for you. Then you can request that we add users, remove users, etc. by contacting the SSCC Help Desk just like with SSCC project directories.

Requests to give someone access to ResearchDrive space must always come from the owner of the space.

For those in the Economics, Sociology, and Anthropology departments, SSCC staff are automatically allowed to manage permissions for your ResearchDrive. If you are not in one of these departments, email the ResearchDrive team at researchdrive@wisc.edu and request that SSCC staff be allowed to manage permissions for your ResearchDrive.

Due to the sensitive nature of SMPH data, SSCC staff cannot manage ResearchDrive permissions for SMPH researchers. SMPH researchers should contact SMPH IT for assistance with managing ResearchDrive permissions.

Connecting to ResearchDrive

ResearchDrive is available from anywhere on the UW-Madison campus network, or off-campus via VPN. On your own computer or Winstat, you can map a drive to it just like SSCC network drives. The location to map is \\research.drive.wisc.edu\NetID, where NetID should be replaced by your NetID or the NetID of the person whose ResearchDrive you are using. Your username must be given as ad.wisc.edu\NetID where NetID should be replaced by your NetID (not the NetID of the person whose ResearchDrive you are using). When asked, give your NetID password (not SSCC password). More details are available in:

• ResearchDrive - Connecting from a Windows Computer
• ResearchDrive - Connecting from an Apple Computer

Connecting to ResearchDrive from Linux and Slurm

To access ResearchDrive from Linstat you'll use the rdmount command. You'll then be asked to provide your NetID password (not SSCC password).

When you run rdmount, the appropriate ResearchDrive(s) will be mounted as /researchdrive/NetID on the server you are currently using, where NetID is replaced by the NetID of the person whose ResearchDrive you are using. (rdmount knows about all the ResearchDrives you own or to which SSCC staff have given you access.) That directory will be available until the next time the server is rebooted. For the next seven days, any SSCC Linux server you log into or submit a Slurm job to will also automatically mount that directory. After seven days, ResearchDrive will still be available on the servers you've logged into (unless they have been rebooted) but will no longer be mounted automatically on new servers. That could cause problems with jobs submitted to Slurm, for example.

We suggest you run rdmount every seven days so that ResearchDrive will always be available. You'll get a reminder when you log in if your ResearchDrive credentials have expired.

Transferring Data To and From ResearchDrive

You can move data to and from ResearchDrive using standard tools, including drag-and-drop to a mapped drive for all but the largest transfers. The following articles describe more options.

• ResearchDrive - Transferring Data with an Apple Computer
• ResearchDrive - Transferring Data with a Linux Computer
• ResearchDrive - Transferring Data with a Windows Computer

Backups and Restores

The SSCC does not handle backups or restoring files from ResearchDrive. Refer to ResearchDrive - Restoring Files or Folders from Snapshots for information, including how you can do your own restores. If you need further assistance with restoring files from Research Drive, contact the ResearchDrive team at researchdrive@wisc.edu.