Meetings FAQ Homepage Archive Environment Administration New User Info. Dataflow Detector Control Evt Processing Prompt Reco. It's purpose is to copy stacker data onto silo tapes or silo data onto stacker tapes. The script relies on the staging system to do the actual reads and writes in order to protect users from each other when using the same resource. There is NO checking of tape ownership .
Users are responsible for writing to their own tapes.
Files larger than 800 MB may not fit on a silo tape. Cptape reads the control file and uses the information to set up and copy a set of input tapes to output tapes. Cptape does not split a file across multiple tapes. Silo tapes are listed by their volume name starting with the prefix QJ . Stacker tapes are listed by their logical volume name, i.e. COLO01, DAT001.