== Transfer ==
A script runs daily on astro.suth, and pulls recent data from all the instruments of which it is aware. At the moment, this includes shocnawe, shocndisbelief and SpUpNIC, and STE on the 40inch but we will be adding more instruments as we have the opportunity. We are also configuring a version of this script to run on astro.cape, after the astro.suth script has completed; this will synchronize data between Sutherland and Cape Town. There should then be two back-ups of the data on each instrument.
The script is run daily at 08:00 AM from a cron job, but can also be run manually. It is possible to specify a specific date to synchronize (-d option), as well as a specific instrument (-i option). One can also specify the number of past days (counting back from today) for which the data is synchronized (the -n option).