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Activation on the Computing Cluster of the Center for Computing and Comunicaion


  1. Starting the software
  2. Activating files from the home or work directory
  3. Archiving through the command line

Starting the software

To archive data which is located on the Computing Cluster please log on to the machine cluster-archive.rz.rwth-aachen.de.

The client is started with the command

dsm -server=archive -virtualnodename=<user id>

The following shortened command can be used as well:

dsm -se=archive -virtualn=<user id>

The parameter for the -virtualnode is the user id for the archive which was actived in the identity management. Afetre executing the command a log in  window appears in which you have to enter the password.

Activating files from the home or work directory

After starting "dsm" the view has to be changed to archiving. In order to do that you have to press the archive button. The data from the home and work directory is located at

Network -> /rwthfs/rz/cluster/home/<username>

and

Network -> /rwthfs/rz/cluster/work/<username>

Attention: If the $work directory is not visible you have to change into this directory before starting the TSM client.

Cluster Archiv

from this point on you can archive the data as described at the section about using the TSM client

Archiving through the command line

Besides archiving with the grafical client it can be perfomred with the command line as well. Therefore the program dsmc has to be used. This program is started with the following command on one of the cluster computer (e.g. cluster-archive.rz.rwth-aachen.de).

dsmc -server=archive -virtualnodename=<user id>

The following table shows the most important command to archive, restore and delete files.

command description
archive /home/ae106st/p1.tar -description="Project 1" archiving a file
query archive / -subdir=yes list all file of an archive
retrieve /home/ae106st/p1.tar /home/ae106st/p1-copy.tar -description="Project 1" restore a file out of an archive
delete archive /home/ae106st/p1.tar -description="Project 1" delete a file out of an archive
quit quit the program

A complete list of all options and parameters are to be found in the build-in documentation. It can be called with the command

dsmc help

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