Hi,

  These are Matlab data files (the .mat files).  He is running a series of
jobs to produce these files, but I'm not sure what he plans to do with these
once he has produced all of the files.  I have talked to him a little about
these files, but I'll contact him again to see if I can get some details.

  I think that all of his files are being written to /home/shuklaa/M33 -
would it help the backup if all *.mat files in that directory, or even that
whole directory could be excluded from the backup?

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Computing Support [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Steve Moore
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:55 AM
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Subject: Backing up Matlab files

My short question is: do we need to backup matlab files?  Dr. 
Shukla's job (which I presume is matlab) has generated about 2 
terabytes of .mat files recently.  This is causing space and 
performance problems on our primary backup server.  If no one knows 
the answer I will contact Matlab.

Steve Moore
Senior Software Coordinator
Miami University
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