New CFHT archiving system
Manual - Version 1.1

Jean-Pierre Véran, Bob Link

• Contents
• 1 Historical Overview and New Goals
• 2 Pipeline Overview
  • 2.1 Data flow
  • 2.2 General caracteristics of the archive daemons
  • 2.3 Geometry of the pipeline - Master parfile
  • 2.4 Where's what ? A guided tour of the new directory tree of the archive machine kapu
  • 2.5 The archive user
• 3 Administration and Maintenance
  • 3.1 Checking the pipeline
  • 3.2 Killing and Restarting daemons
  • 3.3 Changing media
  • Crontab eight_o_clockjob
• 4 Archive Pipeline: detailed review
  • 4.1 copyd daemon
  • 4.2 distd daemon
  • 4.3 Archiver daemons
  • 4.4 Miscellaneous Process daemons
• 5 Remodeling and improving the archive pipeline
  • 5.1 Modifying the geometry of the pipeline
  • 5.2 Pipeline tune-up
• 6 Failure: what to do ?
  • 6.1 Failure of type I: a daemon is dead
  • 6.2 failure of type II: a daemon is hung
  • 6.3 Reboot of the archive machine
  • 6.4 Warning from copyd
  • 6.5 Media are full
• 7 Retrieving files from the archive
  • 7.1 From Sony optical disk
  • 7.2 From an Exabyte tape
• References
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