[BiO BB] Updating NCBI databases

[Samantha Fox]

Ryan,
Thanks for the note !
Yeah, I cant think of other options for now .. but will let you know if I
figure something.

~S

On 2/8/06, Ryan Golhar <golharam at umdnj.edu> wrote:
>
> I think the easiest way is to do a 'ps -ef | grep blast'.  If it returns a
> process (other than itself) in the list, then you know someone is running
> blast.
>
> The other (simpler) option is to maintain a seperate BLAST database that
> you can copy in place under a standard maintainence window.  We normally
> reboot our server once a month when system patches are applied.  During this
> outage period, the new database could be copied in place.
>
> Let me know what you end up doing.  I'm curious to the solution you decide
> on.  I might want to use that here.
>
> Ryan
>
>
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> *Subject:* [BiO BB] Updating NCBI databases
>
> Hi,
> I had a question regarding regular update of BLAST databases. Is there a
> standard way to move the updated databases to the user section, making sure
> that the current copy is not already in use ?
>
> Suppose I update the database monthly, but a user might have a big BLAST
> job running when my cron script starts the update. This can lead to errors.
> How can I prevent that ?
>
> Thanks,
> ~S
>
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