[daip] forwarded message from Eric Greisen

[Eric Greisen]

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From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at aoc.nrao.edu>
To: jcammisa at haverford.edu
Subject: Re: [daip] aips data, linux, ext2 => ext3
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:42:26 -0600

You may use tar to back up full data areas, user by user (or all at
once if they will fit on tape), and then untar them on the new system.
The only requirement is that the user have no data on the new data
area before the untar.

Wes thought tar might have a problem because of of an old file naming
convention we abandoned long ago (because of problems like this).

The FITTP/FITLD route is cumbersome but needed when the binary
architecture differs (e.g. Solaris to Linux).  You do not have that
problem here.  Note that AIPS requires modified Z routines for RedHat
8/9 - that are issued now as a patch to 31DEC02 and intrinsic to
31DEC03.

Eric Greisen

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