Remote Backup

For fast data transfer of up to 20Gb, you must connect to Diamond with nomachine and "push" out the data to your local computer. To back-up data remotely please follow these instructions:

1. From your computer open NX player and connect to nx.diamond.ac.uk
2. Once connected to Diamond, open a terminal window and use sftp, scp or rsync

Command  for scp:

 scp -r /dls/beamline/data/year/visitnumber/mydata/ username@local-computer:/where/to/backup/my/data

Replace:

• /dls/beamline/data/year/visitnumber/mydata/ by the path where your data are
  
• username by your username on your local computer
• local-computer by the name of your local machine or ip address
  
• /where/to/backup/my/data by the destination directory on your local computer

Important Note:

On Diamond computer you will find your image files in the directory:

/dls/beamline/data/year/visitnumber/ replace "beamline" by i03, i04, i04-1 or i24