Archiving Station

This document describes the programming and system aspects of the archiving station.

The archiving station consists of following components:

A SPARCstation 5
An Exabyte tape drive (8505XL)
A Kodak PCD-224 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-DP 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

Original: dloone@atnf.csiro.au (21-Feb-1995)
Modified: nmckay (9-Oct-1995)