RE: Dump a Directory to CD?

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Rob and all,

Well, no one looked like they were going to bite, and I had files that 
needed to be written to disk.  So now I have to suffer twice, my code and 
yours.

I caution you to think a little about how you are going to save 
stuff.  Have you got your WCS headers right yet??  It took me some 
time.  Data is not worth looking at until you are pretty close in the WCS.

Every place you look in my lab there are stacks of CD's.  Thousands.  I 
have a scheme I like.  I write on each disk

030428     (date taken)
TOM1       (telescope)
t1x7       (version of on line code)
V Disk 1  (OK, now I will just number them 0, 1, 2, ... )
2757      juilian day

In addition, I write copies of all the code used in the on line system on 
the first data disk of a nightly set for a telescope.  This helps sort out 
what was actually in the code that took the data.

I think you will soon want the Dec drive modification.  Just let me 
know.  It is quite repeatable and you don't have to worry about the 
clamp.  I just keep the Dec. motor activated all the time and the mount 
stays put.  OK, I will need to take some pictures to show where you put 
stuff.  An excuse, I think, to go out and buy a digital camera.  Any 
recommendations?

Tom Droege




At 05:20 PM 4/29/03 -0600, you wrote:

>Pain and suffering.  That's what you should go through for asking for
>something, then doing it yourself ;-).
>
>I will probably be compressing the fits files using the compression method
>included with CFITSIO, as I think I can fit two nights of data on one DVD.
>I have 750Gb+ of disk's across 3 machines so I won't have to burn DVD's for
>a while...
>
>Cheers,
>Rob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net]
>Sent: April 29, 2003 11:20 AM
>To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
>Subject: Re: Dump a Directory to CD?
>
>
>OK, I did it.  It took me 53 lines of code and all I do is set up
>directories so xcdroast can get at the data.  This is OK for my purposes
>since I have to load disks anyway.   It was worry some that cdrecord  might
>get in the way of supermount.  So I did not attempt the full automation.  I
>suspect that Rob will eventually do something like this for me.  He just
>has to feel the pain of keeping track of loading and unloading disks.
>
>Tom Droege