I use git-annex to store data related to my dissertation and other personal projects (in the field of historical linguistics). My main concerns are data backup and replication across the several machines I use to work on the projects. (18%)

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Store/manage/sync hdf5 files produced by my solver code (https://github.com/aragilar/DiscSolver) for my PhD thesis. (1%)

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Manage bioinformatics files related to viral genomics. (1%)

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Medical image storage and research artifact archive. (1%)

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Manage backups and copies of large working data (25%)

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NSF 1429999 (DataLad project), NIH 1P41EB019936-01A1 (ReproNim), any neuroimaging study I touch gets annexed (3%)

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Neuroimagingjc data repository https://OpenNeuro.org uses git-annex via datalad to manage dataset versions and export datasets to a versions S3 bucket (3%)

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Any project ends up in a repository with an annex (DataLad dataset) (10%)

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Manage pdfs of research papers (11%)

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Distribution and archival of build products (6%)

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Biomechanical testing and computer modeling of knee meniscus injury. Git annex was used to track experimental data and store snapshots of analysis. Regular git was used in the same repository to track code, notes, and drafts. Work supported by NIH grants R01AR050052, R01EB002425, R21AR070966, U54GM104941. (1%)

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being able to acces my archives from my 60GB notebook (11%)

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Storing part of the pentago dataset (https://perfect-pentago.net) (1%)

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Total votes: 59