General directives for migration

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Notes for users to prepare for Data Migration

This page is dedicated to users of Compute Canada clusters concerned by the process of data migration. It is also useful for other users since it explains how to proceed when it comes to transfer your data from one place to another between Compute Canada facilities and its regional partners (ACENET, Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario and WestGrid). You will find the best practices useful links related to data archiving and migration. In this page, you will find some tips, instructions and links on how to prepare your data and archives to facilitate the migration process. Cleaning your directories and archiving your data is part of migration process. Here, we give you some tips on what to do do before, during and after the migration process.