...
For all metrics with 100Byte pings by node
$mkdir /afs/slac/public/users/cottrell/metrics-100-by-node
$cp -v /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerreports/hep/*/*-
100
-by-node* /afs/slac/public/users/cottrell/metrics-100-by-node
$tar -cvzf /afs/slac/public/users/cottrell /archive-average_rtt-100-by-node.tar /afs/slac/public/users/cottrell/average_rtt-100-by-node/average_rtt-100-by-nodemkdir
However:
$ls /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerreports/hep/*/*-100-by-node*
/bin/ls: Argument list too long.
Exit 1
So following the guidance in http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060 we could try to write a script:
function large_cp () { while read line1; do cp -v directory/$line1 /afs/slac/public/users/cottrell/metrics-100-by-node done } ls -1 directory/ | large_cp
Retrieving
See http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/retrievedata.html