Hi,
If the automatic recording of .daq files in the file catalog is not working.
 I can't do anything about it.

Check every day if the command below returns anything (
put the correct run number)

get_file_list.pl -keys path,filename -cond storage=HPSS,filetype=online_daq,runnumber=6014001,sanity=1 -distinct -delim /

So it is a pain w/o get_file_list.pl .

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Use this instruction from Jerome to go directly to item #3


 You can however assemble the file list using the FastOffline data
base. For example, if you use http://www.star.bnl.gov/cgi-bin/jerome/genlist.cgi
and enter '6013050', you get a "ready-to-go" for the Carousel list of
files.
 This is documented on the sofi page (bottom along with the "how
to retreive"). Putting this cgi into a command line script is not hard.


---------- Manual HPSS request from scratch -----------------------

1) first find exact file names from the web page:

http://online.star.bnl.gov/RunLog/indexCuCu200.html

2) build input file for DataCarusel
(with editor, this is this  pain)  with one line per file. Format:

fullSourcePath fullDestinationPath
fullSourcePath fullDestinationPath
fullSourcePath fullDestinationPath
fullSourcePath fullDestinationPath


The source path you must guess, it has a structure:
/home/starsink/raw/daq/2004/135/st_physics_adc_5135068_raw_2070001.daq

The destination path you must decide and remember there must be
 enough disk space to store the events, about 0.6GB per file
The recommended destination is:
/star/data03/daq/2005/day/

Note there is only 39GB free disk now, so you must work in cycle, request ~20-30 daq files, produce muDst, erase them, request new once.
Write muDst on some other disk.

rmine605.rcf.bnl.gov:/star/data03
                      959G  920G   39G  96% /direct/star+data03


You should have a following file, name it whatever: xx1.hpss
====================================
/home/starsink/raw/daq/2004/109/st_physics_5109030_raw_1020001.daq /star/data03/daq/2004/janMisc/st_physics_5109030_raw_1020001.daq
/home/starsink/raw/daq/2004/109/st_physics_5109030_raw_1030001.daq /star/data03/daq/2004/janMisc/st_physics_5109030_raw_1030001.daq
/home/starsink/raw/daq/2004/109/st_physics_5109030_raw_1030002.daq /star/data03/daq/2004/janMisc/st_physics_5109030_raw_1030002.daq
/home/starsink/raw/daq/2004/109/st_physics_5109030_raw_1040001.daq /star/data03/daq/2004/janMisc/st_physics_5109030_raw_1040001.daq
.....
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3) do HPSS request using DataCarusel
hpss_user.pl -f xx1.hpss

You should see a message N requests has been accepted

Now you wait from 3 minutes to few hours. But most likely 5 minutes 
and files will start to appear in the destination directory

You can verify your request was made or was wrong by looking at:
http://www.star.bnl.gov/cgi-bin/jerome/display_accnt.cgi
and put your name there.
This web page has a latency up to 30 minutes
but some times it does not work at all.

good luck (this time you really need it)
Jan