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##Synchronizing working directories between tklab and orchestra**

Overview

The data synchronization process is a one-way synchronization, and files and directories transfered are no longer writable. For processing, there is a two-way synchronization of the ` ~/sync ` directory between the ` tklab ` server and ` orchestra ` . Since the ` ~/sync ` directories are in the user's home directories, users have full ability to create, delete, rename, etc anything within them without effecting the raw images stored in ` /groups/kirchhausen/datasync ` .

Anything outside the ` ~/sync ` directory, including ` .cshrc ` , ` .ssh ` will not be copied to orchestra.

Suggested Working Directory Structure

Symlinks can be used to keep the processing directories linked to the raw data directories, without requiring write/delete permissions for data directories. For example, instead of nstead of creating ` /datasync/Dataset001/process1 ` , create a ` ~/sync/Dataset001 ` directory. Within ` ~/sync/Dataset001 ` , create a symlink pointing to the images ( ` cd ~/sync/Dataset001 ; ln -s /groups/kirchhausen/datasync/Dataset001 images ` ).

Step by Step

Setup passwordless ssh logins between ` tklab ` and ` orchestra ` before using two-way sync.

1. Process within the ` ~/sync ` directory, on ` orchestra ` or ` tklab ` .
2. When done, or at a checkpoint, initiate synchronization from ` tklab ` : ` unison -auto ` (interactive) or ` unison -batch ` (non-interactive).

More details

Nightly non-interactive synchronization runs will be run from cron.

If you're curious about unison, more detail is available from the project website .