How to use tool

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createpublicdb_imas

Run:

createpublicdb_imas --help

to get basic documentation.

Example usage

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1. Create a text file with name description.txt that contains a plain-text description of the database you want to save
2. Run the tool in 'dry run mode first':

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The tools is meant to modify the public database, which carries the risk of corrupting important data.
For testing the tool, or practicing its use, a test environment is foreseen. In this test environment a test copy of the public database is used. Below are instructions how to use the test environment.

1. Switch to development environment

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module purge

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module load imasenv

2. check that you have the development database selected:

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env | grep PUBLICDB

This should give:

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IMASPUBLICDBDEVHOME=/pfs/work/imasdb_dev

IMASPUBLICDBDEVMETADATA=/pfs/work/imasdb_dev/meta

IMASPUBLICDBHOME=/pfs/work/imasdb_dev

IMASPUBLICDBMETADATA=/pfs/work/imasdb_dev/meta

IMPORTANT: If you don't check this, you risk overwriting the real public database!

3. run tool:

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createpublicdb_imas --help

This should give you some basic documentation.

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5. check that the public database is populated correctly:

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imasdbs -u public

Please report any problems you find to the above tracker item.

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