[daip] help to migrate AIPS data from solaris platform to linux

[Eric Greisen]

Ming Zhu writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I am trying to migrate the AIPS data from a solaris 2.5.1 server to
 > Linux platform for the radio astronomy group
 > at University of Toronto.  My linux box runs Redhat 7.3 and the latest
 > AIPS package 31DEC02 has been successfully
 > installed on it.  Now I need to migrate the data (AIPS 31DEC01) from the
 > solaris server (called FFT)  to Linux (called DENEB).
 > 
 > I tried to mount  the data disk from FFT to DENEB. After editting
 > $AIPS_ROOT/DA00/DADEVS.LIST
 > and NETSP, I can see the user data area when running aips on DENEB.
 > However,  DENEB could not read the catalog
 > information, i.e. the command mcat  or ucat does not show any files.
 > 
 > On my second attempt, I tried to copy all the aips data files from FFT
 > and put them in the user data area  2  (disk 2) on DENEB. However,  I
 > got the following error when running mcat:
 > 

I hope that you have not destroyed all the data!!!!

Do NOT do this - the 2 computers have different architectures and so
cannot read each other's data.  You must go through FITS files on disk
or tape.  There are procedures in the new aips to help this process.

Enter RUN  FITDISK  to load the procs - an dthen look at their help
files to see how to use them


 > AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  2
 > AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
 > 
 > AIPS 1: ZFIO: OPER = READ LUN = 15 NREC =        6
 > AIPS 1: ZFI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 5121 THRU = 6144 BEYOND EOF = 5120
 > AIPS 1: ZERROR: IN ZFI2   ERRNO = 22 (Invalid argument)
 > 
 > I don't like to have all the users to dump  data to fits format on FFT
 > and load them back to DENEB one by one.
 > Is there any better way to do that?
 > 
 > Please help.  Thank you!
 > 
 > Ming Zhu
 > Research Associate,
 > Dept. of Astronomy
 > University of Toronto
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Are you the one that runs a MNJ on fft every day that fails every day
and sends us its failure messages???

Please stop that.

Eric Greisen