IMPORTANT NOTE: your data will be available to the observing program PI on the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) a day or two after the observing run. Therefore, there is no need for you to download your data on your observing night, unless you wish to.
If you would like to download the data during your obseving night, the rsync program is a convenient utility for copying data from the instrument host to your laptop or to a remote machine. You can either pull or push data as explained below.
Which computer to use depends on the instrument. Some recommendations are:
This method is appropriate for use on laptops.
rsync -avz account@keckhost:/path/to/data .where:
This method works best when transferring data to a machine at a remote site, when it would be tedious to log into the remote machine and then gain access through the Keck firewall.
ssh sshserver4
rsync -avz /s/sdataNNN/account/dir user@host:/path/to/datawhere
rsync -avz esi1@sshserver4.keck.hawaii.edu:/s/sdata703/esi1/2011jan01 .
rsync -avz deimos1@sshserver4.keck.hawaii.edu:/s/sdata1001/deimos1/2011jan01 ~/deimos_data
rsync -avz /s/sdata1001/deimos1/2011jan01 wiseguy@foobar.ucolick.org:~/deimos_data