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While MorphoBank aims to meet the needs of all users, storage is finite and some projects with media are quite large. The default maximum project size for all new projects is 5 GB.

Does MorphoBank support continuous and discrete data for morphological phylogenetics?

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An advantage of a web-based system like MorphoBank is that time-consuming maintenance tasks such as data backup can be centralized. MorphoBank runs on servers hosted by the State University of New York at Stony Brook. All data on the main MorphoBank server at Stony Brook is backed up to tape, as well as to off-site mirror servers at the American Museum of Natural History. Stony Brook servers are backed up nightly and serviced by a professional full-time staff of system administrators. Currently the Stony Brook backup system is scheduled to run nightly incremental backups.If disaster should strike we should be able to recover virtually all lost data. For data recovery, the Morphobank system administrator will work with the Stony Brook system administrators to get the data loaded back in to the MorphoBank Portalbacks up both the database and the media files for the resource once a week.

For optimal security we suggest you perform your own periodic back-ups using the project "download" feature. This can be found on the right side of the project overview page (the summary page displayed when you first select a project) and will provide you with a Zip-format archive containing all matrices and media from your project.

Note that a project download is not a full backup in that it can not be reloaded into MorphoBank to reconstitute a project. The download consists of separate NEXUS files and images. Media, characters, taxa and scoring are all retained, but labels and links between matrix characters and cells to media will not be retained due to limitations in the NEXUS file format. Thus we do not recommend deleting your work within MorphoBank unless you are absolutely sure you no longer need your project.

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