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Once you have your TACC account/projects/etc. setup, here are a few tips:
1. Use Ranch (tape) to archive your data, or use Corral to store large datasets where they won't get purged.;
2. The BioITeam has established many useful repositories of data (e.g. blast databases, reference genomes, etc) and scripts/libraries at /corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/.
3. Consider sourcing /corral-repl/utexas/BioITeam/bin/profile_ngs_course.bash
Some tips to using Ranch:
a) always use bbcp (installed on Fourierseq and all TACC machines) to move data - syntax is the same as scp but it's much faster.
b) Ranch is a tape archive - your data will be moved to tape, so it's not immediately available.
c) use "sls -2" to see the status of your files - The third line of the output will list attributes related to archiving:
Status Description
O The file is offline, removed from disk, and is only on tape.
P The file is offline with partial online
E The tape where the file resides has been flagged as "damaged." Contact TACC User Services.
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