Cluster download files

Make sure you have the right path for both the cluster and local directory. If all is correct, you are prompted for a password. If it is successfully mounted, the folder you created on the desktop will change appearance once you mount the drive to it.

Caution : You mount the drive always on an empty folder. Anything in the folder will not be accessible once you mount another drive to it. For example, if you mount a drive on Mac HD, you will likely lose access to most of files, and crash the system. It will start saving the file in your cluster account. The image below is an example for downloading compressed fastq files from illumina website. When you mount the drive, make sure to use an empty directory.

If you use a directory that contains files, you will lose access to them. If you accidentally mount on the wrong place, you will need to unmount the drive.

If you made a mistake mounting the drive in a wrong directory or the mounted drive stops responding, you can unmount the drive and remount it. To unmount,. However, it requires no installation of software or mounting disk to save files from the web directly to your cluster account. Some people may prefer this. There are a few common web browsers for linux system. Here is a lis t of top 10 browsers.

In my institution, I found firefox is available on the cluster. To use it, I log in using ssh -X then type firefox. A window will pop up for firefox. Once the window is open, you can use it just like your browser on your local machine, but with slower speed. Because you are using a browser through a cluster, you can save web files directly to your account. Both methods work pretty well to transfer large files from the web. In my case, the second method was faster than the first method.

You can also copy files from one remote server to another remote server, without passing traffic through your PC. Explaining the complete syntax and every option of this command is out of the scope of this page, you can always enter a the command prompt " man scp".

You can read more details online here. Let's say now you want to copy the same file from jane's home folder in host. With scp you can copy files between remote servers from a third server without the need to ssh into any of them, all weight lifting will be done by scp itself. Let's say now you want to copy the same table file from jane's home folder to pete's home folder in another remote machine. Copy one single file from a remote host to the same remote host in another location.

This time, you will be copying from one host to the same host, but on different folders under the control of different users.

You can copy multiple files at once without having to copy all the files in a folder, or copy multiple files from different folders putting them in a space separated list. This will copy all files of a given extension to the remote server. Would you like to install the Microsoft Download Manager? Generally, a download manager enables downloading of large files or multiples files in one session. Many web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 9, include a download manager.

Stand-alone download managers also are available, including the Microsoft Download Manager. The Microsoft Download Manager solves these potential problems.

It gives you the ability to download multiple files at one time and download large files quickly and reliably. It also allows you to suspend active downloads and resume downloads that have failed. Microsoft Download Manager is free and available for download now. Warning: This site requires the use of scripts, which your browser does not currently allow.

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