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How can I access DXUL (fortress) from a Unix machine in the EAS computing environment?

April 26, 2017computing EAS Environment fortress Machine Unix

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How can I access DXUL (fortress) from a Unix machine in the EAS computing environment?

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DXUL is a long-term storage archive that may be used by all faculty. DXUL stores data on tape, so it is highly recommended that you compress the files you wish to archive into a single, larger archive file. (Transferring lots of little files will waste disk space and create a lot of overhead on DXUL.) You may use zip, tar, bz2 or any other compression utility. For example, assume the files you wish to archive are located in the directory “data2005”, you may compress them by running: tar -cvzf data2005.tar.gz data2005 If the system complains about not knowing what -z is, then you will need to use two steps: tar -cvf data2005.tar data2005 gzip data2005 Now you can move the compressed file to DXUL.