Post-beamtime checklist

Getting your data

Your options include:

  • copying data directly from the network drive where it’s stored - see note below

  • using SFTP - see note below

  • using Globus Connect - see note below

The beamline staff typically use the first option.

Caution

The use of USB drives to transfer data is convenient, but poses a security risk. Get permission from your local contact.

To speed-up post-beamtime data analysis and reduce the amount of raw data to be taken home, we recommend:

  • using the User Data Analysis workstation in the measurement hutch,

  • creating one or multiple Igor project files and saving them locally,

  • importing the good measurement files into the Igor project file(s) and working with them (e.g. performing drift correction, extracting spectra using z-profiles, etc.),

  • using folders within the project file(s) to organize the data, and the notebooks within Igor to perform logging,

  • copying the Igor project files to your PC and/or hard drive(s) at the end of your beamtime, and

  • backing up your Igor project file(s) to the processed sub-folder, under your proposal folder.

Copying data directly from the network drive

Connect to the maxiv_user Wi-Fi network (which requires your DUO username and password).

Map/mount the network drive folder relevant for your proposal. On a Windows computer, you would mount \offline-2.maxlab.lu.se\offline-visitors\maxpeem\12345678

where 12345678 is your 8 digit proposal number. Use the username MAXLAB\xxxx where xxxx is your DUO username, and your DUO password.

Note that practical data transfer speeds are ~5 MB/second.

SFTP

See the MAX IV SFTP webpage.

Globus Connect

See the MAX IV Globus Connect webpage

Near the end of the beamtime

  • Make arrangements with your local contact to remove all of your samples from the microscope and prep chamber.

  • Clean up your work area in the chemistry lab, if applicable.

  • Clean up your work area in the MAXPEEM prep lab (next to the measurement hutch), if applicable.

Caution

At the end of the beamtime

  • Clean up any leftover food, cups, paper scraps, etc. from the hutches.

  • Put away any power supplies, cables, tools, etc.

  • Erase any markings from the whiteboards that are directly related to your beamtime.

  • Copy your data from the appropriate folder on the network drive offline-2

  • If shipping samples and/or equipment back to your home institute, package everything up and transfer the package to your local contact.

  • Pack up all of your samples, and clean up your work area on the sample prep table in the measurement/microscope hutch.

  • Tell your local contact what worked well and not well.

Shortly after the beamtime has ended

  • Submit beamtime feedback in DUO.

  • Submit an experiment report in DUO.