Staging input files

Input files may be "local" (resident on the project server) or "non-local". For local files, BOINC fills in the download URL, the file size, and the MD5. For non-local files, you must supply these yourself in the input template. You can supply multiple URLs if the file is on multiple data servers.

Staging local input files

Before submitting a job, you must stage its local input files using

bin/stage_file [--gzip] [--copy] file

--gzip

send the file in compressed form to 7.0+ clients. Note: you must also include the <gzip/> attribute for this file in the job's input template (see above).

--copy

copy the file from its current location to the BOINC download directory. The default is to move it.

Note: stage_file was added to the BOINC trunk on 16 Oct 2012. If your server code is older than that, use

cp test_files/12ja04aa `bin/dir_hier_path 12ja04aa`