What is Tier 2 Storage?

What is Tier 2 Storage?

Tier 2 is the same archive storage that is available to the rest of MSI. Tier 2 allows Public sharing options for data.

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Only use Tier 2 for unprotected data! Do not put dbGaP data or any other data covered by policy into Tier 2!

Move data between S3 Cache, S3 Secure, and Tier 2 using the mc or s3cmd commands on a VM

Stage data from Tier I (Panasas) into Tier 2 before pulling into VMs

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