Genome-preview machine

In early 2011, we created a new machine called genome-preview, which is a mirror of our development machine: genome-test.

It is here: http://genome-preview.soe.ucsc.edu/

It has these warnings on the home page:

WARNING: This is our preview site. This website is a weekly mirror of our internal development server for public access. Data and tools here are under construction, have not been quality reviewed, and are subject to change at any time. We provide this site for early access, with the warning that it is less available and stable than our public site. For high-quality reviewed annotations on our production server, visit http://genome.ucsc.edu.

In general, we do not push updates/files/tables/patches to this machine by hand. It is generally understood that it will sometimes be out of commission, as it is a mirror of a development machine.

The impetus behind this machine was to allow early access to the ENCODE data by ENCODE consortia members.

Automated Updates

The genome-preview machine is updated on a weekly basis like so:

On Friday nights (11:33 pm), the following stuff is copied from hgwdev:

• mysql tables (excluding mysql, customTrash, and other things)
• hgcentraltest tables (excluding userDb, sessionDb, namedSessionDb and hubStatus)
• CGIs
• htdocs

Most of the stuff on /gbdb comes from backups of the /hive/data and /hive/groups.

• /hive/data is backed up on Fridays at 5:22 am
• /hive/groups is backed up on Wednesdays at 5:22 am.

Note that this may cause some inconsistencies if new data is added on Thursday to /hive/groups and accessed by new CGIs, since the data will not be available on the backups until the following Wednesday.