Research File Service (RFS)

The Research File Service (RFS) is a University-approved central storage facility for active research data, available to internal research staff across all divisions and external guests. RFS is designed for live data storage and provides a reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable service, with the assurance that your research data is safely protected and accessible. University of Oxford research staff can request between 100GB and 20TB of data for their project free of charge.

RFS can be accessed via SMB (as a mapped drive) across the University network, or through VPN outside of the university. Currently RFS is suitable for the storage of public and internal data only.

What's this? The stage in the service lifecycle at which the service currently resides. Lifecycle = planned, new, live, notice, closed Lifecycle status	Live
What's this? The level of user activity at this point in the academic year. Business activity level	Medium
What's this? The regular period during which routine maintenance could take place. Maintenance window
What's this? Would making a change to the service today present too high a risk to the University? Restricted change period	No

Getting help

Support contact	Research Technology Support Service (RFS) rfs-help@it.ox.ac.uk
Support hours	08:30 - 17:00, Mon - Fri*
Out-of-hours support
Portfolio Committee	Research Portfolio
Service Sponsor	Fraser, Michael
Service owner	Wilson, Rowan rowan.wilson@it.ox.ac.uk
Service manager	Brown, Laurence laurence.brown@it.ox.ac.uk