[daip] AIPS question

[Eric Greisen]

John M. Cannon wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I have what I hope is a simple AIPS question that you might be able to 
> help with.  I currently have a cluster of Intel Mac machines running 
> 10.4.11, each with a local copy of 31DEC08 AIPS installed.  AIPS uv and 
> image data exist on each of these machines.  My systems are being 
> updated to 10.5 via a disk image copy from one pre-formatted system that 
> now has 10.5.7 and 31DEC09 AIPS.  I will recursively copy all data on 
> each 10.4 machine to a RAID system, upgrade each to 10.5 (which will 
> erase all data on those machines), and then copy all data back from the 
> RAID. 
> 
> Will the new systems be able to see and use the data files that came 
> from the old ones?  Do I need to be worried about any issues during this 
> upgrade?

There should be no problem so long as the file systems do not get 
mingled in any way.  (AIPS uses the same file names in aips disk 1 as in 
aips disk 2 etc).  The byte orders remain unchanged in this so the data 
temselves are fine.

Eric Greisen