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B2DROP
EUDAT’s Personal Cloud Storage
Service

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B2DROP is...
B2DROP is a secure and trusted
data exchange service for
researchers and scientists to keep
their research data synchronised
and up-to-date and to exchange
with other researchers.

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B2DROP is part of EUDAT...
a pan-European initiative building a sustainable
cross-disciplinary and cross-national data
infrastructure providing a set of shared services for
accessing and preserving research data
supporting multiple research communities by
working closely with them to deliver these technical
services as part of the EUDAT Collaborative Data
Infrastructure (CDI)

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A truly pan-European Infrastructure
EUDAT offers common data services, supporting multiple
research communities as well as individuals, through a
geographically distributed, resilient network of 35
European organisations
Our vision is to enable European
researchers and practitioners from
any research discipline to preserve,
find, access, and process data in a
trusted environment, as part of a
Collaborative Data Infrastructure

5. Community-Driven Solutions
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
& ENGINEERING
SOCIAL SCIENCES
& HUMANITIES
MATERIALS &
ANALYTICAL FACILITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
MAPPER
BIOMEDICAL &
MEDICAL SCIENCES
EUDAT services are designed, built
and implemented based on user
community requirements.

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Where is B2DROP in the B2 Service suite?
B2DROP lets you transfer data stored on
B2DROP to other B2 services

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Store and exchange data with
colleagues and team members,
including research data not
finalized for publishing
share data with fine-grained
access controls
synchronize multiple versions of
data across different devices
An ideal solution for researchers and scientists to:
Features:
20GB storage per user
Living objects, so no PIDs
Versioning and offline use
Desktop synchronisation

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What can users do?
Users can
have access to 20GB of storage space for
research data
access and manage files from any device and
any location
define with whom to exchange data, for how
long and how

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What type of data can I store?
Any kind of temporary research data
Primary data or processed data, data as the basis
for a publication.
Both empirical and theoretical data
Any kind of format and file: papers, spreadsheets,
audio-visual media, provided the data source or
purpose of the data has a scientific background.
Data are uploaded from your local or departmental
storage device as digital objects.
Please read our service Terms of Use for further information.
https://b2drop.eudat.eu/themes/b2drop/terms-of-use.html

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Register to use B2DROP
Easy and quick registration at https://b2drop.eudat.eu

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It’s simple to use
Intuitive and simple user interface
User-friendly interface and easy-to-use storage
facilities
Drag or drop files for storage
Create new files and folders
Share data with others with one click

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Synchronise your files
Synchronise B2DROP with your computer using ownCloud
desktop clients by downloading the latest version of
ownCloud Desktop Synchronization Client ownCloud
Website.
MacOS
Linux Distributions
Windows
After download and installation enter the URL of the
B2DROP ownCloud server https://b2drop.eudat.eu/ and
enter your B2DROP username (e-mail address) and
password.
Note that using this client allows you to work on your files
while offline, and synchronise when you reconnect to the
network.

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Mount your folder
You can mount B2DROP as a drive to your desktop
machines via WebDAV
Your B2DROP folder then appears in your file browser
You can work on files, which will synchronise
automatically with the B2DROP server on save
Supported for
MacOS
Linux Distributions
Windows
Note that mounting your folder through WebDAV only works
while you are connected to the network.

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Mount your folder - MacOS
Mount B2DROP in your "Finder":
1.Click on "Go" on the drop-down menu and then
"Connect to server"
2.Enter
https://b2drop.eudat.eu/remote.php/webdav/ when
prompted
3.Login with your username (e-mail address) and
password.
You can also mount B2DROP with Cyberduck by
providing the above-mentioned information to the
client.

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Mount your folder - Linux
You can mount B2DROP with NAUTILUS:
1.Select "Go to File  Connect to server"
2.Type in:
davs://b2drop.eudat.eu/remote.php/webdav
3.Login with your username (e-mail address) and
password.
Mounting via davfs is also possible, but it requires sudo
access.
Login with your username (e-mail address) and password
To unmount use the following command:
The instructions above have been tested on Ubuntu but they should
work for every Linux distribution supporting the NAUTILUS or GNOME file
system.

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Mount your folder - Windows
Map B2DROP as network drive:
1.Enter
https://b2drop.eudat.eu/remote.php/webdav/ as a
folder
2.Login with your username (e-mail address) and
password.
Note that you may need to set your computer to
allow Basic Authentication; please follow the Microsoft
instructions for this. Because B2DROP is available
under https, Option "1 - Basic authentication enabled
for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) shares only" should
suffice for Windows Vista and later.

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B2DROP Supports versioning
Automatic file versioning
Access to the previous versions is straightforward on
the web GUI and the desktop client
The latest file gets overwritten by the selected
version, with other versions (including newer)
retained.
To preserve disk space, B2DROP preserves a subset
of the versions, progressively reducing the number
of retained versions as time goes by.
Note that B2DROP removes older saved versions
and/or stops maintaining versions when the user
exceeds 50% of their quota.

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How & Where are my data stored
B2DROP is hosted at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Daily backups of all files in B2DROP are taken and kept
on tape.
Underlying technology is ownCloud 7

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For more info: https://eudat.eu/services/b2drop
B2DROP User Documentation:
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2drop