Acacia is Pawsey's warm-tier research data storage server. It is a part of the Pawsey storage portfolio and can be accessed on the Pawsey servers as well as from anywhere on the internet. Acacia's internet address or endpoint is https://projects.pawsey.org.au.

Acacia is a modern object storage system which can be used by applications compatible with the Amazon S3 protocol. It is built upon the open-source software Ceph. In practice, this means that instead of files, your data is stored as objects in buckets

For further information visit - Acacia - User Guide

Using Acacia

What software to use?

Access to Acacia is via client software that takes care of moving data to and from Acacia and managing data objects.  There are many other software clients that are S3 compatible and that provide useful features.

Permissions

For Nimbus projects all members have full rights and access but no-one outside the project.  

You can allow anyone access to buckets on Acacia using a time-limited presigned URL.

A more complete and continuing bucket access control can be granted to other Acacia users and projects using policies. These consist of JSON formatted text files which contain the specific configuration desired.

Refer to Acacia - User Guide for more detailed guidance

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