CSB Rimage development and sysadm

2007.07.02 -- Much of this section is obsolete, at least in terms of the currently running applications. See also /srv/local/backup, /srv/local/backup/BNL, and /srv/local/backup/BNL/2.1.1/. Also, look at the directories pointed to by /srv/local/setup/burndvd.set -- this should always show you where the current applications are.

Architecture of the CSB production system.
ToDo list
Listing of this directory

Where things are -- 2009.03

method:	Generic data	Crystallographic data	Filesystem/Directory Trees	Manual DVD burning
Setup (pre-2009.03)	`setup gendvd` ->/srv/local/backup/V3/gendvd/gendvd.set	`setup burndvd` ->/srv/local/backup/burndvd.set ->/srv/local/backup/burndvd.set.20080915	(none)	(none)
Setup (post-2009.03)	`setup robot` ->/srv/local/backup/robot.set	`setup robot` ->/srv/local/backup/robot.set	`setup robot` ->/srv/local/backup/robot.set	(none -- see user docs)
old python scripts	/srv/local/backup/V3/gendvd	/srv/local/backup/BNL/2.1.1x/	/srv/local/backup/BNL/CSBarc.01T/DVAR	(none)
new python scripts:	/srv/local/backup/V3/gendvd.ds1	/srv/local/backup/BNL/2.1.1.ds1/	/srv/local/backup/BNL/CSBarc.01T.ds1/DVAR	(none)
Burnit:	/srv/local/backup/java/clients.2.1	/srv/local/backup/java/clients.2.1	/srv/local/backup/BNL/2.1.0/burnDVD.py -> /srv/local/backup/java/clients.2.1	/srv/local/backup/BNL/2.1.0/burnDVD.py -> /srv/local/backup/java/clients.2.1

Working notes

Manual.html -- Using the Rimage manually from the Windows PC (Elijah).

directory-splitting.txt -- Algorithms and scripts for splitting directories into DVDs to be backed up.

Printing labels -- Labels will be generated on the linux clients, as described in PDFlabels.html. Earlier attempts to use BTW files with merge fields, generating the labels on the server, are described in 20060203-print.txt and 20060221-print.txt.

20060206-dtd-production.txt -- DTD files for CD/DVD production

linux-client-apps.html -- How to submit jobs to the Rimage 2000i from a linux client. For a detailed log of developing a sample app, see 20060206-java-api.txt.

java-install.txt: Notes on installing java.
ds2.txt: Notes on configuring ds2 to run archiving procedure.

transfer.html -- Configuring ring4 as a disk and storage server for creating ISOs and uploading them to elijah, the Rimage server. Rough notes are in transfer.txt.

cache.html Configuring and using the production server cache files.

Documentation from Rimage

AdvSetupGuide.pdf
Rimage2000iUserGuide.pdf -- How to operate the rimage itself, and a bit about making and printing labels -- virtually nothing about butning disks.
SoftwareGetStarted.pdf -- pretty useless in any of its six languages.
Software Development Kit (SDK) documentation These directories and documents have all the libraries, sample source code, sampl XML and DTD files, java class descriptions, etc. for developing client-side apps to control the rimage.
rimage web site support for 2000i.

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