Package and distribute data

Say that you wish to send all your data folder to a colleague for inspection. You can tar -czvf exported_data.tar.gz ./data/ and send your whole data folder, but you might want to only pick the output and non-remotely available inputs, and leave re-downloading the (potentially bulky) remote data to your colleague.

If you run kerblam data pack you can do just that. Kerblam! will create a exported_data.tar.gz file and save it locally with the non-remotely-available .data/in files and the files in ./data/out. You can also pass the --cleanup flag to also delete them after packing.

You can then share the data pack with others.

Omit input data

If you only want to package your output data, simply pass the --output-only flag to kerblam data pack. The resulting tarball will just contain the data/out folder.