Buckets:
Transfer records — AguaTrack global (AR6) bucket
One manifest per year listing EVERY object for that year, with its exact byte size, so a download can be verified per file rather than by counting.
manifest_YYYY.tsv kind <TAB> remote_path <TAB> size_bytes
monthly {REGION}/{YEAR}/{slice}/monthly/backtrack_{YEAR}-MM.nc
ckpt checkpoints/{REGION}/slice_{i}/restart_{YEAR}-MM-01.nc
Generated from hf sync --dry-run's own planner, NOT hf buckets ls -R — the
recursive listing was observed silently truncating large prefixes, returning fewer
rows with no error.
Verifying a transfer
./transfer_year.sh YEAR /path/to/dest # download + verify
./transfer_year.sh YEAR /path/to/dest --verify-only
Delete from the bucket only on verdict: COMPLETE.
Two things that are easy to get wrong
Checkpoints have no year folder — they live at
checkpoints/{REGION}/slice_{i}/restart_{YEAR}-MM-01.nc and must be selected by
filename (--include '*/restart_YYYY-*.nc'). A loop syncing checkpoints/{YEAR}
transfers nothing and reports success.
Per region, monthly and checkpoint counts are both slices × 12 and must be
EQUAL. That invariant is what caught SEA's 2023 checkpoints coming back empty from
a transient planner failure; without it the manifest would have under-reported and
verification would have passed while 108 objects were never downloaded.
Per-year totals
| year | monthly | ckpt | total | size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | see manifest |
| 2014 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.712 TB |
| 2015 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.734 TB |
| 2016 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.759 TB |
| 2017 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.740 TB |
| 2018 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.770 TB |
| 2019 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.773 TB |
| 2020 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.743 TB |
| 2021 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.715 TB |
| 2022 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.719 TB |
| 2023 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.702 TB |
| 2024 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.747 TB |
| 2025 | 3504 | 3504 | 7008 | 1.730 TB |
| 2026 | 292 | 292 | 584 | 0.092 TB |
All four published years pass the invariant (monthly==ckpt per region). 2022 and older become eligible as the run closes each year; the run walks backward, so a year is only shippable once tracking has passed BELOW it.
Lossless restart states (the hand-off)
manifest_lossless_1992-01-01.tsv covers final_lossless_restart/ -- the 292
LOSSLESS s_track states at Machine A's stopping boundary, which a later machine
resumes from. Same TSV format as the year manifests.
Verified 2026-09-27 against the local originals before Machine A was dismantled: 292 files, 0.702 TiB, zero missing, zero size mismatches -- byte-for-byte identical.
Verify a download of them with:
while IFS=$'\t' read -r kind path size; do
f="./_restart/${path#final_lossless_restart/}"
[ -f "$f" ] || { echo "MISSING $path"; continue; }
a=$(stat -c%s "$f"); [ "$a" = "$size" ] || echo "SIZE $path ($a vs $size)"
done < manifest_lossless_1992-01-01.tsv
Silence = all 292 present at the exact expected byte count. A short or truncated state does NOT fail at load time -- it fails when that particular slice runs, which can be hours into a multi-day job.
- Total size
- 2.99 TB
- Files
- 9,194
- Last updated
- Oct 6
- Pre-warmed CDN
- US EU US EU