• KIT Data storage (for students)

  • This service provides every KIT student with a KIT account a highly available and centralized home directory.This is also referred to as Student Home in the following.
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General

Path

Storage capacity, type

  • Directory Size 10 GB
  • Storage capacity based on SATA Raid

Access rights

  • Access for KIT students with personal KIT account.
  • The directory can also be shared with other users.

Connection

  • with \\sccfs.scc.kit.edu\stud\u<.>\u<....>
  • Example for account uabcd:
    • \\sccfs.scc.kit.edu\stud\ua\uabcd
    • login: KIT\uabcd + PW, oder uabcd@student.kit.edu + PW

Notes

Changing the password exclusively via Self-Service-Protal my.scc.kit.edu

Further documents and instructions

User guide to KIT data storage (for students) - in german

Included services

  • Access with both protocols
    • CIFS (Windows) and
    • NFS (Linux)
  • Access is possible from the KIT internal network directly, from outside only via VPN (vpn.kit.edu) (details see: access via public networks)
  • The home directory is available
    • in the SCC pools at login, there
      • on Windows under My Documents,
      • on Linux as login-home.
  • Backup
    • Integrated into the central backup system of the SCC.
  • Restore
    • Time frame 1 day: 8 versions with an interval of 3 hours are available to the user. The user can access these versions himself and without significant delay to restore files.

Organizational requirements

Students with a valid KIT user account (KIT account).

Technical requirements

System access takes place as follows:
Access/login with KIT account: KIT\login (or mail address) and password

  • Example for account uabcd:
    • \\sccfs.scc.kit.edu\stud\ua\uabcd
    • login: KIT\uabcd + PW, oder uabcd@student.kit.edu + PW