Archiving Station

This document constitutes an operators guide to the ATNF Compact Array archiving system.

The archiving station consists of following components:

A SPARCstation 5
An Exabyte tape drive (8505XL)
A Kodak CDROM writer
A Kodak CDROM disc transporter
Enough disk space for to buffer the equivalent of up to six CDROMs of data

The disc transporter gives it the capability of doing unattended archiving of telescope data.

Software Components

The software to control the archiving station consists of several Tcl/Tk scripts. The main program is Archiver, which "owns" the CDROM writer and transporter. Other programs are called providers and their job is to assemble data and then call Archiver to make a CDROM from that data

Archiver

Simple: an interactive, general purpose provider.

Notify: inform the user of action.

Original: Unknown
Modified: nmckay (9-Oct-1995)