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### Important Update since April 14th 2022
For all commandline tools, like the datasetIngestor, datasetRetriever
etc, using your own user account you **have** to use the –token
etc, using your own user account you **have** to use the `--token`
option with a predefined API token SCICAT-TOKEN. Specifying
username/password is not possible for normal users (this limitation
is caused by the switch to a new authentication protocol). The
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For particularly important datasets, you may also want to use the
parameter –tapecopies 2 to store redundant copies of the data.
parameter `--tapecopies` 2 to store redundant copies of the data.
To give some numbers, 0.20.4% of the tapes get damaged so
there is a chance that archiving with only one copy will result in lost
data, in very few cases. Keep in mind that archival with redundancy
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always handled as `decentral` case, i.e. the data will first be copied
from the windows machine to a central file server via scp
first. Therefore you need to specify all of the above parameters
-token, -user and -copy.
`--token`, `--user` and `--copy`.
Please also note the syntax, that has to be used for the definition of
the sourceFolder inside the metadata.json file: this has to be in the
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You will be prompted for your username and password.
If everything looks as expected you should now repeat the command with
the "–ingest" flag to actually store the dataset(s) in the data
the `--ingest` flag to actually store the dataset(s) in the data
catalog
```sh
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central cache file server).
In addition you have the option to directly trigger the archiving of
the data to tape by adding the –autoarchive flag. Do this only if you
the data to tape by adding the `--autoarchive` flag. Do this only if you
sure that this data is worth to be archived
#### Use Case: Automated ingest of raw datasets from beamline or instruments