1. Experimental data

All experimental data should be stored in the OneDrive folder Prof. Nguyen shared with you when you start. This is backed up regularly by the university, and Prof. Nguyen (monthly). Keeping these data safe is extremely important in having a stress-less-ish writing up at the end of your PhDs/projects.

For coding and high throughput computational chemistry projects, the number of files generated will be in the order of millions by the end of the projects. Synchronising a large number of files is very slow, regardless of their size. So you should regularly compress your batches of files into large zip/tar files (perhaps per each computational campaign), before putting them on OneDrive.

2. General data storage and backup

You have your own OneDrive account as well, and should use it for everything else, including your writing and literature pdf files. Some of thesee can be regularly copied over to the OneDrive folder shared with Prof. Nguyen with FreeFileSync. All these MUST be inside a folder named 'Research' to be regularly backed up and IP-protected by the University of Leeds. You should have your own backed up version as well, which will result in triple-backed up versions of your work, and no tear when you computer fails.

3. Others

The location of your M: drive and N: drive can be found in Remote Desktop, and are accessible via VPN on your own computer. The instructions are here: 

 https://it.leeds.ac.uk/it/?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0011024