Data Transfer and Backup
The most convenient method of transferring image files is with a user-supplied USB external hard drive. An archiver script has been set up to automate the task of copying data. Set up a directory in which all of your data will be collected. From the User Workstation your drive is connected to, open a terminal (not a data processing terminal), and simply type
archiver [somedir] /media/[drivename]
where
somedir is the directory in your users directory that you want to transfer/backup and
drivename is the name of your hard drive. The archiver script will then automatically backup all of the data collected in subsequent subdirectories as you collect.
- Any USB drive must be FAT32 or ext2/ext3-formatted. NTFS-formatted external hard drives are not supported at this time.
(Note that if an ext2/ext3 drive is read-only, its permissions can be set by running sudo chown users:[username] [drivename] as admin.)
- While Windows XP can read and write to FAT32-formatted drives without any difficulty, its Disk Management facility cannot create individual FAT32 partitions larger than 32,768 MB. Instead, you can use this FAT32 format utility; please ensure the drive is empty before using. (See the author's page for more details.)
- Firewire is not supported at this time.
Data Transfer via SSH