This page last changed on Jan 22, 2010 by rich.

Wet-side

  • logged datafiles on linux boxes in /coredata/data
  • cronjob run under coredata account, calls NightlyTransfer which
    • gzips all logr.dat files in /coredata/data (except current yrday which is still being written)
    • ftp's gzip'd files to gr8white on-shore  (user=rovctd) into /home/datatransfer/wfly_logger or /home/datatransfer/pl_logger
    • on success, deletes the wet-side file.

Dry-side

  • on gr8white, user rovctd
  • cronjob runs NightlyPL and NightlyWF shell scripts, which execute moveLogrFiles.perl and processNav.perl
  • moveLogrFiles:
    • transfers all logr.dat.gz files from /home/datatransfer to appropriate /mbari/ShipData/logger directories
    • if its a shipnavlogr file, then make a symbolic link to the archived file in /home/rovctd/nav/(shipname)/raw
  • processNav.perl:
    • any symbolic linked shipnavlogr files found in /home/rovctd/nav/(shipname)/raw are processed into nav.txt files and transfered into /mbari/TempNav directories for hand editing. 

Downstream processing

  • rovctdlogr and videologr files are processed directly out of the archive by sqlserver jobs that call scripts and perl programs on solstice.


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