

Acacia Object Storage Workshop: Conduct 1
Join Pawsey specialists for a workshop on using the Acacia object store
This 4-hour workshop introduces the Acacia object store and discusses how to use it from Setonix and your computer.
Please bring to the workshop a laptop with both administrator and command line access, so you can install the MinIO and Rclone client software. This software will be used during the workshop.
Workshop syllabus:
- Introduction: Object storage and how it differs from filesystems
- Tutorial 1 – Access keys for your connection to Acacia
- Tutorial 2 – Acacia from the command line
- Creating and managing buckets
- Copying files to and from Acacia objects
- Accessing and working with object metadata
- Creating public URL’s to share objects with colleagues
- Synchronising directories to the object store
- Tutorial 3 – Using Acacia in HPC workflows
- Best practices for moving data on Pawsey systems
- TAR files and how they can make data more manageable
- How to integrate object storage into your supercomputer job workflows
The scratch filesystem on Setonix has a 30-day retention policy. Acacia is designed for longer term (project) storage.