Changes

By default the last 30 days are synchronized; this should ensure that if data is not copied on some particular day, it will be copied on a later day. If the instrument is unmounted before the scheduled sync time, or data is acquired after the sync but before unmounting, then this might lead to data not being immediately copied for that day. If the machine is off for more than 30 days (as currently configured), then a manual sync should be done after the instrument is remounted.

On astro.suth the data is stored under /data/telescopedata. The path to the data then takes the form <telescope>/<inst>/<YYYY>/<MMDD>/. Here the telescope can be one of 74in, 40in or 1m, and the inst is the abbreviated instrument name (one od sha, shd or spupnic). So for example, data acquired by shocnawe on the 74-inch telescope on the night of the 8th/9th of September, 2016, would be in/data/telescopedata/74in/sha/2016/0908. Note: the data is archived on the astro servers using this standard SAAO/SALT data path; some instruments may not yet use this exact directory structure for local (on-instrument) data storage.