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Important: It is the user's responsibility to backup your important data. We only guarantee a daily backup of data in the $HOME area.
$HOME: permanent/backed up, user specific, local
This is a local area where you are placed after the login procedure. It is where system and user applications store their dot-files and dot-directories (.nwchemrc, .ssh, ...) and where users keep initialization files specific for the systems (.cshrc, .profile, ...). There is a $HOME area for each username on the machine.
This area is conceived to store programs and small personal data. It has a quota of 50 GB. Files are never deleted from this area, moreover, they are guaranteed by daily backups: if you delete or accidentally overwrite a file, you can ask our Help Desk (superc@cineca.it) to restore it. A maximum of 3 versions of each file is stored as a backup. The last version of the deleted file is kept for two months, then definitely removed from the backup archive. File retention is related to the life of the username, data are preserved until the username remains active.
$WORK: permanent, project specific, local
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