The majority of the costs of the mass storage have been covered by a FEDER grant obtained by the GIGA. However, some operating costs are not covered by this grant, such as costs linked to the improvement of the performances, software licenses.
For this reason, the GIGA decided to give to each research team a certain amount of free space on the mass storage, and to charge any additional space used by them.
The revenues from these fees will be used exclusively for costs linked to the mass storage management.
Find more information about this system [here](mass-storage/mass-storage-billing)
## Good practices
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If backed up properly, you'll be able to retrieve a file accidentally deleted less than 28 days ago.
In some circumstances you will even be able to retrieve a previous version of a properly backed up file. To be sure your files are backed up properly, you should read the [**backup policies**](mass-storage/mass-storage-backup-archive) .
-**Use compression tools when possible and group numerous small files in DAR archives**
-**Use compression tools when possible and group numerous small files in gzip, TAR or DAR archives**
You'll find more information about how to compress and group files this [page](mass-storage/mass-storage-archive-creation)
-**Keep all the files associated to a project in that project folder and not in your home**
This will allow all people working on a given project to access these data and work on them. It will also facilitate the upload of the data to public database when submitting a publication.
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Overall, try to give files and directories short, meaningful and easily understandable names so that anybody working on the same project can easily find them.
# [Connection to the mass storage](mass-storage/mass-storage-connection)
For a detailed description of the different methods you can use to connect to the mass storage, see [here](mass-storage/mass-storage-connection).
