Storage services - Store, share and manage digital data

This service is available to students, employees and guests of the university.

Documents, images or videos - would you like to store your teaching and research data securely at the URZ, share it with your team or students and access it from home?

Various services are used for different data and purposes:

  • Individual storage space for university members

    We provide you with individual storage space for data that should not be shared with others.

    Your stored data is subject to regular backups and can be restored by yourself if necessary (snapshot functionality). As your data is stored centrally in the university computer center, you need an Internet connection to access your data. Within the university, e.g. in offices or in PC pools, as well as mobile in the universitywide WLAN de the access is possible at any time. For access outside the university-wide data network a VPN de is necessary. 

    • Access via network drive folder: \\zufs.uni-jena.de\home\a\ab12cde
      • "a" stands for the first letter of your university account "ab12cde"
    • Further information:  URZ-KnowledgebatabaseExternal link
  • Storage space for workgroups and projects

    If you want to store shared documents in one place so that several people at Friedrich Schiller University have access to this data, you can apply for storage space for working groups or projects. In contrast to the Uni Cloud, however, several people cannot work collaboratively on one document;

    Your stored data is subject to regular backups and can be restored by yourself if necessary (snapshot functionality). As your data is stored centrally in the university computer center, you need an Internet connection to access your data. Within the university, e.g. in offices or in PC pools, as well as mobile in the universitywide WLAN de the access is possible at any time. For access outside the university-wide data network a VPN de is necessary. 

  • Uni Cloud - online storage and more

    If you would like to save and edit documents and files together with colleagues within your working group, regardless of where you are working, the university's cloud solution is the ideal solution.

    Your data is stored in the university data center. The same data is available on all devices that you connect to the cloud. You can therefore edit your data on one of your devices even without an internet connection. As soon as you have an internet connection again, the data is synchronized with the cloud again. This means that the current status is maintained across all your stationary and mobile devices and can be accessed at any time.

  • Temporary file upload for data exchange

    If you want to send very large files easily within interdisciplinary working groups, you can use the temporary file upload.

    You select how long your files should be made available in the file upload and can make them accessible to other users via a link by e-mail;

  • Version management with gitlab

    Is your team developing software and your source code is constantly changing or are you working on publications in LaTeX?

    in order to maintain an overview of constant changes, GitLab External linkas a version control system allows a detailed view of the history of changes made (including the date and author of each change). This enables controlled development, easy merging of individual changes and rolling back to an earlier version.

  • Data retention for research data that is not actively used

    You have large amounts of research data that are no longer needed for active work. The data takes up expensive storage space and yet you cannot delete it?

    With the University Computer Center's long-term data storage, you can comply with the DFG's specifications and guidelines. Data can be stored for up to 10 years on request. Before the retention period expires, we will contact you to clarify the further whereabouts of the data.

  • Further storage options for servers, data and systems

    Provision of server systems (virtual machine / server hosting)
    Would you like to store and analyze your data in a subject-specific application and need infrastructure to operate this application? Then let the URZ provide you with a virtual server. This avoids time-consuming procurement processes and the expense of operating your own server hardware. You install and configure your required application and independently administer the virtual system provided.

    Server Backup
    You operate your own servers in your institution and would like to back up your server data at regular intervals so that it can be restored in the event of a loss. The University Computer Center offers you the option of integrating your servers into our central backup system.

    Datenbank Hosting
    Would you like to store large amounts of information from your research in a structured and logically grouped manner in one place and then analyze it or link it under different questions in order to obtain new research results? The URZ operates various database management systems for these purposes on which a database can be provided for you. The URZ operates the infrastructure and regularly backs up your data. You administer your database and your data independently.

Is your request more complex? You are welcome to contact the Competence Center for Digital Research de (zedif) as an interface between science and infrastructure. If you have specific questions about your research data, please contact the Research Data Management contact point. de

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