Storage Quotas on Central Servers
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- Overview
- UW NetID Support Group
- Default Storage Quotas by Service
- Transferring Files From Unix and Web Publishing Locations
Overview
- Your storage quota is the maximum amount of storage space allocated to your computing account on the UW Information Technology Central Servers.
- Currently, each type of service (email, Web publishing, UNIX storage) is granted a default storage quota as described in the tables below.
- Faculty and staff can use a UW budget number to purchase additional space in 1 gigabyte (GB) increments via Manage UW NetID Resources. Information on purchasing additional storage space is available in the UW-IT Service catalog.
- Students are limited to the established quotas.
UW NetID Support Group
Departments have the ability to manage additional storage space once their IT support personnel establish a UW NetID Support Group and their users have linked their UW NetID to the support group.
Default Storage Quotas by Service
Faculty and Staff Default Storage Quotas
| UW Email (Deskmail) | Starts at 1GB, can be increased to 5GB* |
| Unix (Homer) | 1GB |
| Web Publishing | 1GB |
| U Drive | Starts at 5GB, can be extended with UW Budget Number |
*Visit the self-service quota update webpage directly to increase your Faculty/Staff UW Email storage space. There is no charge for increases up to a maximum of 5GB. You may purchase space above 5GB with with a UW budget number.
Shared UW NetID Default Storage Quotas
| UW Email (Deskmail) | 1GB |
| Unix (Homer) | 1GB |
| Web Publishing | 1GB |
| U Drive | Starts at 5GB, can be extended with UW Budget Number |
Shared UW NetID owners or account administrators can purchase additional storage space by selecting the Shared UW NetIDs option from their UW NetID Manage page.
Student storage Quotas
| UW Email (Deskmail) for students with department approval | 300MB |
| Unix (Dante) | 300MB |
| Web Publishing | 300MB |
| U Drive | Starts at 5GB, can be extended with UW Budget Number |
Where to go for more information
Transferring Files From Unix and Web Publishing Locations
Files stored inside Unix or Web Publishing space are accessible with a secure file transfer protocol software program. (Secure FTP) program. Once connected to homer.u.washington.edu (for employees) or dante.u.washington.edu (for students), files can be copied, removed, or uploaded with a secure file transfer program.
Additionally files inside the Web publishing space can often be managed from within a Web development tool, such as Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. For additional details please see Using HTML Authoring Tools at the UW.
