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Storing can be performed with a slurm job script that makes use of the data-transfer nodes (copy partition) to handle new results/data in the working directory on /scratch and store them in Acacia. Note that data is first packed into a .tar file, and transferred to Acacia afterwards.

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#!/bin/bash --login

#SBATCH --account=[yourProjectName]
#SBATCH --job-name=storeTar
#SBATCH --partition=copy
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=2
#SBATCH --time=[requiredTime]
#SBATCH --export=NONE

#-----------------
#Loading the required modules
module load rclone/<version> #This example is performed with the use of the rclone. 

#-----------------
#Defining variables that will hold the names related to your access, buckets and objects to be stored in Acacia
profileName=<profileNameGivenToYourProfileOfAccessToAcacia>
bucketName=<bucketInAcaciaContainingTheData>
prefixPath=<prefixPathInBucketUsedToOrginiseTheData>
fullPathInAcacia="${profileName}:${bucketName}/${prefixPath}" #Note the colon(:) when using rclone

#-----------------
#Check if Acacia definitions make sense, and if you can transfer objects into the desired bucket
echo "Checking that the profile exists"
rclone config show | grep "${profileName}" > /dev/null; exitcode=$?
if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "The given profileName=$profileName seems not to exist in the user configuration of rclone"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
fi
echo "Checking the bucket exists and that you have writing access"
rclone lsd "${profileName}:${bucketName}" > /dev/null; exitcode=$? #Note the colon(:) when using rclone
if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "The bucket intended to receive the data does not exist: ${profileName}:${bucketName}"
   echo "Trying to create it"
   rclone mkdir "${profileName}:${bucketName}"; exitcode=$?
   if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
      echo "Creation of bucket failed"
      echo "The bucket name or the profile name may be wrong: ${profileName}:${bucketName}"
      echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
      exit 1
   fi
fi
echo "Checking if a test file can be trasferred into the desired full path in Acacia"
testFile=test_file_${SLURM_JOBID}.txt
echo "File for test" > "${testFile}"
rclone copy "${testFile}" "${fullPathInAcacia}/"; exitcode=$?
if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "The test file $testFile cannot be transferred into ${fullPathInAcacia}"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
fi
echo "Checking if the test file can be listed in Acacia"
listResult=$(rclone lsl "${fullPathInAcacia}/${testFile}")
if [ -z "$listResult" ]; then
   echo "Problems occurred during the listing of the test file ${testFile} in ${fullPathInAcacia}"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
fi
echo "Removing test file from Acacia"
rclone delete "${fullPathInAcacia}/${testFile}"; exitcode=$?
if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "The test file $testFile cannot be removed from ${fullPathInAcacia}"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
fi
rm $testFile

#----------------
#Defining the working dir and cd into it
workingDir="$MYSCRATCH/<workingDirectoryOfSupercomputingJob>"
echo "Checking that the working directory exists"
if ! [ -d $workingDir ]; then
   echo "The working directory $workingDir does not exist"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
else
   cd $workingDir
fi

#----------------
#Defining what to tar and the name and place of the tarfile
whatToTar=( file1 dir1/ dir2/file2 dir3/file* ) #These are inside the working dir
tarFileName=case_A1-newData.tar.gz
auxiliaryDirForTars="$MYSCRATCH/tars"
echo "Checking that the auxiliary directory exists"
if ! [ -d $auxiliaryDirForTars ]; then
   echo "Trying to create the auxiliary directory as it does not exist"
   mkdir -p $auxiliaryDirForTars; exitcode=$?
   if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
      echo "The auxiliary directory $auxiliaryDirForTars does not exist and can't be created"
      echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
      exit 1
   fi
fi

#----------------
#Taring the indicated files and directories
srun tar -cvzf "${auxiliaryDirForTars}/${tarFileName}" "${whatToTar[@]}"; exitcode=$?
if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "Something went wrong when taring:"
   echo "tarFileName=${tarFileName}"
   echo "whatToTar=( ${whatToTar[@]} )"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
fi

#-----------------
#Perform the transfer of the tar file into the working directory and check for the transfer
echo "Performing the transfer ... "
srun rclone copy "${auxiliaryDirForTars}/${tarFileName}" "${fullPathInAcacia}/"; exitcode=$?
if [ $exitcode -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "Problems occurred during the transfer of file ${tarFileName}"
   echo "Check that the file exists in ${workingDir}"
   echo "And that nothing is wrong with the fullPathInAcacia: ${fullPathInAcacia}/"
   echo "Exiting the script with non-zero code in order to inform job dependencies not to continue."
   exit 1
else
   echo "Removing the tar file from scratch as it was successfully transferred into Acacia"
   echo "Final place in Acacia: ${fullPathInAcacia}/${tarFileName}"
   rm "${auxiliaryDirForTars}/${tarFileName}" #Comment this line when debugging workflow
fi

#---------------
# Final checks ...

#---------------
#Successfully finished
echo "Done"
exit 0

Coordinating the different steps (scripts) with job dependencies

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In principle the same scripts can be used in other systems, but they will need to be adapted accordingly. The main adaptation would be the impossiblity of coordinating the different steps through dependencies when scrips are to be executed on different clusters; for example, using the data mover nodes on zeus (copyq) and the compute nodes on magnus (workq) for the supercomputing job.

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