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This policy may be revised in future if the rate at which data is generated increases to such a level that local hard discs must be emptied more frequently than once a month
Data Transfer Rates
Transfer of 103 GB via Gigabit Ethernet from the Vox to confocalstore2 on Friday 25th April took 26 minutes.
The data transfer rate from the time-lapse systems to the server is approximately 1Gb/minute, this may vary, but consider this when backing up data for the amount of time you should allow. USB transfers will likely take longer.