UKIRT Flexed Data Retrieval

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POLICY ON COPYING RAW DATA

Raw and reduced data can be copied directly from the raw data disks at the summit. The easiest way is to bring your laptop and transfer the data using the internal network. Once your laptop is connected (using a cable, not wireless) you will be able to use ssh and sftp to the computer called lemi.ukirt.jach.hawaii.edu.

Another possibility is to bring an external disk. There is only one computer where you are allowed to plug an external disk: the "weather monitor "computer (kokua), currently located under the desk between the observer and the TSS in the control room. We do NOT allow external disks to be plugged anywhere else. The following should get you going:

Connect your disk to the USB port on the front panel of kokua
From a terminal on kauwa, ssh into kokua as observer
Check the disk mounted: it should appear under /media on kokua (kokua's /media is normally empty)
Cd into the disk and navigte to whatever directory you want to copy your data into
cp the data from the wfacq machines. For example, copying all files from :

cp -u /ukirtdata/raw/wfcam4/20090317/*.sdf .

(-u causes cp to only copy files which haven't already been copied, so you can issue this command at any point in the night without repeating a lot of copying)

Contact: Andy Adamson. Updated: Thu Mar 19 15:00:01 HST 2009

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