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Using Deck in Nextcloud
Once you are logged into Nextcloud, hover over the row of icons at the top to reveal the names and select Deck. Creating a new Deck board Click to expand! To create a new Deck click on Add board Enter the name for your new Deck board Once the boa...
Using Rsync
Basic Rsync Usage rsync is a very powerful and widely used tool for moving data. The manual page has many useful examples (from the command line type "man rsync"). Here are a couple of examples to get you started: # the command format is #rsync <switch opt...
Additional CrashPlan Support
Additional CrashPlan support and troubleshooting for CrashPlan Enterprise can be found here
MATLAB Usage
Using Matlab via CLI Some options of interest: --nodesktop - skips firing up the desktop at startup (if java is running it can be fired up later) --nojvm - skip loading of Java, this means that no desktop can be started up --nosplash - skip trying to ...
Migrating Google Drive with FileZilla
If you have a large dataset in Google Drive you need to download to GRIT hosted storage, and you have not already been set up with access to the server mentioned below please reach out to GRIT support via help@grit.ucsb.edu first to get started. The instructio...
Anaconda
"Anaconda is the hardware store of data science tools, Miniconda is the workbench (software distributions), Conda is the assistant (package manager) who helps you get new tools and customise your hardware store or workbench." (Instructions contributed by Es...
The 'screen' program
screen can be used when running jobs to allow you to disconnect your computer from a remote terminal session, for example when running a very long rsync job. # (From a terminal command line): # create a new screen session screen -S #name the session ...
Things every new Grad Student should know (IT edition)
Congratulations on getting into the program and welcome to UCSB. Here are some things we think will be helpful in your graduate career: Help@grit.ucsb.edu (zammad.grit.ucsb.edu) If you have any questions or run into any issues, you can always reach us b...
Backup Google Drive to smb via rclone
Step 1: Setting up the Google Drive remote Run the rclone config command Enter n to create a new remote storage point Enter a name - in this example, googledrive Enter drive for Google Drive mdkey@terrance:~$ rclone config Current remotes: Name ...
Jupyter access locations (public)
Jupyter Web UI available at these addresses. Public https://hpc-01.grit.ucsb.edu/jupyter ✔️ https://forge.eri.ucsb.edu:8004/jupyter/hub/login ✔️ https://hammer.eri.ucsb.edu/jupyter/ ✔️
SSH MFA Setup
The GRIT ssh bastion host is heimdall.grit.ucsb.edu / ssh.grit.ucsb.edu. It is set to force 'temporary one time pass', multi-factor authentication (TOTP MFA) via the google authenticator package. All ssh logins from non-campus IPs will be forced to enter a 6 d...
Google Drive Contraction
SSH Key Setup
On a Mac, use Terminal / On a PC, use PowerShell (run as administrator) or install WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install Open a PowerShell window as an administrator and run the following command: ssh-keygen -t ecdsa Hit e...
R Packages Notes
We tend to install R with all the packages, so if you're finding one make sure that you are seeing the default install path. To see the installed packages (from an R prompt): > installed.packages(); To find just one (one example of when it's there, another...
Nextcloud Desktop App
The following instructions will guide you through installation, and initial setup of the Nextcloud Desktop Application for Windows, Linux, and MacOS First you will need to download and install the Nextcloud Desktop application from the Nextcloud Downloads pag...
Storage
Our current rate for storage is $15/TB/year(no minimum or commitment required, pay for what you use, prorated to the GB, the space used for the backups associated with your storage counts toward your use/bill) Standard Back-up options: Snapshots (backups) ar...
Compute / Processing
Virtual Machine (VM) Pricing vm-pricing.grit.ucsb.edu We offer VMs at the following rates: CPU Core - $0.00584 /hrRAM 1GB - $0.001 /hrStorage 1GB - $0.0001576 /hr Example VM: Units Hourly cost per unit Cost/Hour Cost/Month CPU Cores 4 0....
Permissions on Storage
How to check file/folder permissions Anywhere the folder is mounted, view ACLs using getfacl: getfacl /path/to/file or ls -l /path/to/folder How to change file/folder permissions We should be changing permissions with extended attributes. On a ZFS filesystem...
Data Sharing
Methods to share data/storage with collaborators: https link (like in a public_html directory; publicly available) Google Drive-like link sharing with NextCloud (allows sharing to groups or individuals) Rsyncd daemon (which requires the use of the comma...
Set up Dynamic DNS
Use case: DynamicDNS allows us to allow certain traffic through to GRIT hosted servers where static public IP addresses are not available, or for field researchers that rely on mobile hotspots, or local internet connections while out in the field. The instru...