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Moving Data

  • We have already seen that you can download data from the internet via wget (or curl)
  • The best way to move data to/from your laptop or lab computer to sphinx (or any other online server) is with secure copy

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SCP

  • Secure copy
  • Command line interface based on SSH

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Remember our previous cp command:

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cp <location of what we want> <location where it should go>

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cp from to

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SCP

  • Secure copy
  • Command line interface based on SSH
  • Use a different server (set aside specifically for fasta data transfer!

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From a local directory to sphinx:

scp file.txt mstaton1@sphinx.ag.utk.edu:~

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From sphinx to your local directory:

scp mstaton1@sphinx.ag.utk.edu:~/file.txt .

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Local file

Username on remote

Remote Machine

Remote location to place file

Username on remote

Remote Machine

Remote Location

Local Location