Update Documentation authored by Peter Heger's avatar Peter Heger
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There is no automatic mechanism to sync/copy files between Cheops and Ramses. You have to copy your files yourself.
Please note: you can transfer data ONLY to the login nodes (ramses1 ... ramses4), not directly to compute nodes.
Please note: You can transfer data ONLY to the login nodes (ramses1 ... ramses4), not directly to compute nodes.
- for small numbers of files/folders:
- You can copy small numbers of files/folders directly with `scp`:
```
- scp local_file username@ramses1.itcc.uni-koeln.de:remote_destination_dir ( . for home folder)
- scp -r local_folder username@ramses1.itcc.uni-koeln.de:remote_destination_dir
```
- for huge amounts of (small) files use [tar](https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/Tutorial.html#Tutorial) (or zip) to create an archive-file before copying:
`scp local_file username@ramses1.itcc.uni-koeln.de:remote_destination_dir` ( . for home directory)
`scp -r local_folder username@ramses1.itcc.uni-koeln.de:remote_destination_dir`
- For large amounts of (small) files use [tar](https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/Tutorial.html#Tutorial) (or zip) to create an archive-file before copying:
```
- create: tar -czf name_of_archive.tar.gz files_or_folder_to_add
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