Archiving and compressing FOAM time directories into one

kingeorge · October 20, 2021, 04:05

Hello there.

I am doing calculations in the cloud with OpenFOAM dev and only the command line is available for communication with the cloud. Since the remote visualization with Paraview is not that smooth, I would like to download only reconstructed time directories to my local computer. To do that I was gonna pipe the output of the FoamListTimes to the "tar czf" and collect and compress all the new time directories so it is easy to download to my machine and add to the already existing time directories.

Simple piping "foamListTimes | tar -rvf > NewTimes.tar.gz" does not work . I would appreciate if someone has done this before and is willing to suggest a way for how to do this in a correct and elegant way.

Looking forward to some feedback on this one.

Thanks in advance!

adhiraj · October 20, 2021, 12:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingeorge

Since the remote visualization with Paraview is not that smooth, I would like to download only reconstructed time directories to my local computer.

Just curious, why is this not working?

Tobermory · October 21, 2021, 12:17

Try:

Code:

tar -rzvf NewTimes.tar.gz $(foamListTimes -withZero)

or even simpler:

Code:

tar -rzvf NewTimes.tar.gz [0-9]*

kingeorge · October 21, 2021, 13:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by adhiraj

Just curious, why is this not working?

The connection to the cloud is not that good and I never managed to launch paraview remotely. I am all new to this cloud computing with OpenFOAM, maybe I am doing something wrong. Downloading the data and doing post-processing locally is a good option at the moment.

adhiraj · October 24, 2021, 13:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingeorge

The connection to the cloud is not that good and I never managed to launch paraview remotely.

Did you try to use ParaView in client-server mode? I found it very useful ever since I started working from home. Maybe you can look into it?

October 20, 2021, 04:05	Archiving and compressing FOAM time directories into one	#1
kingeorge New Member VladJ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Belgium Posts: 18 Rep Power: 14	Hello there. I am doing calculations in the cloud with OpenFOAM dev and only the command line is available for communication with the cloud. Since the remote visualization with Paraview is not that smooth, I would like to download only reconstructed time directories to my local computer. To do that I was gonna pipe the output of the FoamListTimes to the "tar czf" and collect and compress all the new time directories so it is easy to download to my machine and add to the already existing time directories. Simple piping "foamListTimes \| tar -rvf > NewTimes.tar.gz" does not work . I would appreciate if someone has done this before and is willing to suggest a way for how to do this in a correct and elegant way. Looking forward to some feedback on this one. Thanks in advance!

October 21, 2021, 12:17		#3
Tobermory Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2020 Location: UK Posts: 668 Rep Power: 14	Try: Code: tar -rzvf NewTimes.tar.gz $(foamListTimes -withZero) or even simpler: Code: tar -rzvf NewTimes.tar.gz [0-9]* kingeorge likes this.