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Data Archiving

 

CASPIR data files  are written to the MOPRA data disk as FITS files. These files are accessible from MISTY in dated subdirectories of the directory /data/mopra/. Data files can be copied from MOPRA to MISTY by typing the following into MISTY, e.g.:

cp /data/mopra/10oct94/ir*.fits .
chmod -x *

Data are archived from MISTY to exabyte tape on drive ex0 (left drive) or ex1 (right drive). It is the responsibility of observers to provide their own exabyte tapes. Typically tex2html_wrap_inline6194 100 Mbytes of data are produced in a single night of direct imaging, so data from several nights can fit on one exabyte tape. Data files on MISTY can be archived in TAR format to an exabyte tape already containing data using the following example procedure:

allocate ex0                     (Allocate drive and insert tape in right drive.)
mt eom                           (Position tape at end-of-medium.)
mt nbsf 1                        (Backspace over one file.)
tar t                            (Read last TAR saveset on tape.)
tar t                            (Move over one end-of-file marker.)
cd /data/misty/...               (Go to your top level data directory.)
tar cv 10oct94/raw               (Archive data in subdirectory 10oct94/raw.)
mt nbsf 1                        (Backspace over the saveset.)
tar t                            (Check saveset written correctly.)
mt rewind                        (Rewind tape.)
deallocate ex0                   (Deallocate and remove tape.)



Kabal
Thu Jun 5 16:44:21 EST 1997