{"id":23627,"date":"2026-02-02T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/?p=23627"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:09:32","slug":"datastorage-nrw-migration-abgeschlossen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/datastorage-nrw-migration-abgeschlossen\/","title":{"rendered":"DataStorage.nrw: Migration complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_23627 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_23627')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_23627').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. 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A total of approximately 2.7 PB of research data was migrated between July 2025 and January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog post, we give you an overview of the migration process and the benefits it brings to researchers throughout North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00549f;\">Improved Cooperation Between Universities in North Rhine-Westphalia<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A new storage system, DataStorage.nrw, has been available since July 2025. The research data previously stored via <a href=\"https:\/\/about.coscine.de\/en\/\">Coscine<\/a> in Research Data Storage (RDS) has been completely migrated to the new system.<\/p>\n<p>DataStorage.nrw can be used by all researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/about.coscine.de\/en\/about\/participating-universities\/\">participating universities of DH.NRW<\/a>. Access is provided via the NFDI login, among other things, and is therefore easily possible across institutional boundaries. The research data is organized into projects, with the project managers themselves determining who has access. Depending on their respective roles (owner, member, guest), project members can view, edit, or manage data.<\/p>\n<p>The four locations (Aachen, Duisburg-Essen, Cologne, and Paderborn) of DataStorage.nrw offer protection against server failures and cyberattacks. Should one location fail, the stored data will therefore remain secure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00549f;\">The Migration in Numbers<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>DataStorage.nrw has 24 PB of storage space, three times as much as its predecessor, RDS.nrw. During the migration from July 2025 to January 2026, a total of approximately 2.7 PB of research data was migrated. The data was distributed across 1,421 projects in Coscine. During the entire migration, around 409.7 million files were migrated from the old system to the new system, with a maximum of around 10 million files transferred in a single day. (*)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00549f;\">Storage Space Requests<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>DataStorage.nrw is available to all researchers from participating universities. Storage space requests can be submitted via the Coscine JARDS platform. Help with applying for storage space is provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/17366431\">Coscine Selection Policy<\/a>, which gives an overview of the criteria for approving DataStorage.nrw storage space requests. We have also already described the general process for applying for storage space in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/2025\/08\/27\/speicherplatzantraege-mit-jards\/\">previous blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00549f;\">Thank You to the Coscine Team and All Users!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>We are very pleased that the migration was successfully completed within six months. We would like to take this opportunity to thank both the Coscine team for the implementation and the Coscine users for their understanding that their projects and resources were temporarily unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Responsible for the content of this article are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itc.rwth-aachen.de\/cms\/it-center\/it-center\/profil\/team\/~epvp\/mitarbeiter-pvz-\/?gguid=PER-89HL5HS&amp;allou=1&amp;lidx=1\">Hedda Faber<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itc.rwth-aachen.de\/cms\/it-center\/it-center\/profil\/team\/~epvp\/mitarbeiter-pvz-\/?gguid=PER-9LSMQLX&amp;allou=1&amp;lidx=1\">Katja Jansen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itc.rwth-aachen.de\/cms\/it-center\/it-center\/profil\/team\/~epvp\/mitarbeiter-pvz-\/?gguid=PER-N6AW3XB&amp;allou=1&amp;lidx=1\">Arlinda Ujkani<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>(*) <span class=\"x-text\">The paragraph was updated on February 17, 2026.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,1574,316,315],"tags":[46,40],"class_list":["post-23627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-jubilaen-erfolge","category-fdm","category-projekte-kooperationen","category-services-support","tag-coscine","tag-fdm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23627"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23737,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627\/revisions\/23737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rwth-aachen.de\/itc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}