[GRASS-user] Storing raster maps

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One project has 70 DEMs (13G worth) that I don't need now and I'd like to
tar and move them to an external hard drive. What's the recommended way to
do this so they can be restored for future projects?

TIA,

Rich

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 11:25 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

One project has 70 DEMs (13G worth) that I don't need now and I'd like to
tar and move them to an external hard drive. What's the recommended way to
do this so they can be restored for future projects?

I see two options:
- export the DEMs, still in GRASS GIS format, with r.pack (in a loop)
- or simply package the mapset(s) containing the DEMs.

Markus

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On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Markus Neteler wrote:

I see two options:
- export the DEMs, still in GRASS GIS format, with r.pack (in a loop)
- or simply package the mapset(s) containing the DEMs.

Markus,

With changes to GRASS over the years I was no sure whether making a tarball
of the mapset would retain all information.

Thanks very much,

Rich

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On 1/07/20 23:55, Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Markus Neteler wrote:

I see two options:
- export the DEMs, still in GRASS GIS format, with r.pack (in a loop)
- or simply package the mapset(s) containing the DEMs.

Markus,

With changes to GRASS over the years I was no sure whether making a tarball
of the mapset would retain all information.

There might be future changes to GRASS which would make this difficult with the current version of GRASS (e.g. plans to change the raster format / storage organisation). However, you will always have access to older versions of GRASS GIS and so should at least always be able to open old mapsets in those and then update if necessary.

Otherwise, I think that well-compressed tiff files will remain readable for quite a long time.

Moritz

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Moritz Lennert wrote:

There might be future changes to GRASS which would make this difficult
with the current version of GRASS (e.g. plans to change the raster format
/ storage organisation). However, you will always have access to older
versions of GRASS GIS and so should at least always be able to open old
mapsets in those and then update if necessary.

Otherwise, I think that well-compressed tiff files will remain readable
for quite a long time.

Moritz,

Thanks for the insight.

Perhaps if the raster storage format changes r.pack will be adapted to
recognize an older format and automatically change it to the new format.

Stay well,

Rich