tapes on MSS

tapes on MSS
alldir.txt (1 MB)
12289 files, 51.5 GB (fixed format)

This list includes all versions of all files in all MSS directories. It includes files from about 2000 tapes, including log files from tapes which could not be successfully copied or even read. If duplicate versions of files are present, there are separate entries, for example all.tar and all.tar;2.

to remake:

cd $PDOCS/gss/mss
alldir >alldir.log
#(uses onedir)
#(edit alldir.log to make alldir.txt)

About 1000 tapes were copied with VMSTAR to tar archives on MSS. These tapes were in either of two formats:
  1. GSS (Gettape Stotape System), which were copied to gss.tar.
  2. BCK (VMS backup), which were copied to all.tar.
The GSS and BCK directory structures were preserved by VMSTAR. If multiple runs were performed, there are multiple entries all.tar and all.tar;n (or gss.tar and gss.tar;n). This list includes all versions of either gss.tar or all.tar in each MSS directory.

Tapes in other formats were examined, and the information stored in MSS; however, those tapes were not copied to MSS.


filetable.txt
12289 files, tabulated by tape and owner
1672 unique tapes with files
excluding tapes with no files

allfiles.txt
same, ragged array format
1765 directories with files

to remake:

cd $PDOCS/gss/mss
grep -v alldir.txt >temp.1
splus <filetable.s
rm temp.1
splus <allfiles.s
csh -fx convertnl.csh.txt >allfiles.txt

mss_total.txt total directories (2003 records, comma delimited, 5 columns)
mss_dup.txt duplicate directories (241 records, comma delimited, 5 columns)
mss_ok.txt unique tape directories (1762 records, comma delimited, 5 columns)

to remake:

cd $PUB/gss/mss
splus <dir_total.s
csh -xf convertnl.csh.txt >mss_total.txt
grep N mss_total.txt >mss_duptxt
grep Y mss_total.txt >mss_ok.txt
to read:
cd $PDOCS/gss/mss
splus
source("read_mss_ok.s")

tx[,1]	tapeno		unique tape number
tx[,2]	owner		alsu, asztalos, petrush, mikelu, bradtapes
tx[,3]	space_du	space in kilobytes (from du) (46 GB in 1762 directories)
tx[,4]	bestcopy	most complete copy? (Y/N)
tx[,5]	space_ls	space in kilobytes (from ls) (50 GB in 1762 directories)

sum(as.numeric(tx[,5]))	total space used in kilobytes

MSS file locations (as of 1/8/96) are:
	/home/mss/icsd/seedis/<owner>/gss/<tapeno>/

Only one directory for a given tapeno has bestcopy=Y.
Directories with tapeno > 69999 (for test purposes only) have bestcopy=N.

back to:
copying data from tape to MSS
copying data from MSS to seedis.census.gov
http://merrill.wwh.net/pdocs/gss/mss/mss.html 4/10/97
dwmerrill@lbl.gov