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AstroCD

Introduction

This page describes the procedure for the CD burning system for visiting astronomers implemented in a preliminary prototype.
AstroCD is designed to help producing data CDs.

At this point, the program is supposed to be run from pipeline@protocd, in the home directory

Advantages

- recover/resume from almost any type of interruption/abort
- easy to maintain/troubleshoot
- easy to port/upgrade
- remote operation

Operation

- log in to vistor media burning PC as user pipeline
- open a terminal window
- execute the main program astrocd

- Select number ->1
you will get a list of data/p2pp activity for the past 5 nights:

- you can copy&paste the program id and the dates for the requiered run, i.e:

- Now you will see a list of fits to burn

- now the program shows (a) the number of disks that we need to begin the process of burning(in this case just one).

- The burning process ends when astrocd shows the following screen

- going back to the menu, you can print the run for this program id by selecting "3" and pressing ENTER

- after the run is finished, you can go back to the main menu, you can cleanup the run for this program id by selecting "2" and pressing ENTER( it is recommended to do this only after the observation run has ended)

- you can press "9" followed by the ENTER key if you are done.

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Last Update: M. Ceballos Dec 18, 2003