FAQ - ELN@RWTH (Electronic Lab Notebook)

The pilot phase is planned for 1 year. If successful, the instance used for this phase will be continued requiring no action from the pilot users.

In the event of termination of the Service Agreement, the IT Center is to receive all data within 5 days in a format that is reusable by the eLabFTW software. Thus, an new instance could be made available.

The main backup is taken care of by the service provider, Deltablot. This includes daily, geo-redundant backups. Daily backups are kept for 7 days, weekly backups for 4 weeks, and monthly backups for 4 weeks.

The IT Center reserves the right to read access these backups.

In addition, the data is also backed up locally by the IT Center.

In the event of termination of the Service Agreement, the IT Center is to receive all data within 5 days in a format that is reusable by the eLabFTW software.

The instance has 500 GB of server space. Please do not attach large data files to the experiments. For such cases, you can use Coscine and link your resources and files to your experiments.

Not directly, but there is a workaround. Export your experiment in as an ELN Archive and import it when creating the new template. To bel able to reuse step lists, these need to be unchecked before exporting. You can copy an existing experiment and edit this one to fit the template first.