Upload onto CIRM-01

For CIRM groups

• Ask your UCSC wrangler contact person to set you up with a username and password for the cirmdcm.soe.ucsc.edu sftp upload
• Use an sftp command line client like lftp or simply sftp and connect to sftp://cirmdcm.soe.ucsc.edu, port 6789, using this username
  • the "sftp" command is good for basic sftp transfer program of a few files and is installed on most servers and all Mac computers. lftp is using concurrent connections and can be up to 10-20x faster. Lftp is also better in restarting or updating old uploads.
  • see below for examples
• If you're unsure which program to use and you want a graphical user interface, not a command line program, a good choice is CyberDuck on MacOS, see image below on how to connect using CyberDuck
• Once you're done with the upload, let your wrangler know

Example command line tool "sftp", usually installed on most linuxes and osx, to upload the current directory and all subdirectories:

   $ sftp -P 6789 maxSftp@cirmdcm.soe.ucsc.edu
   sftp> put -r *

If this shows "No such file or directory", then your sftp is a bit outdated and it doesn't have the -P option yet, try this instead:

   sftp -oPort=24 maxSftp@cirmdcm.soe.ucsc.edu
   sftp> put -r *

Example command line tool "lftp", upload current directory and all subdirectories with 10 concurrent connections ("threads"):

   $ lftp sftp://myUsername@cirmdcm.soe.ucsc.edu:6789
   > mirror -R --parallel=10

-R stands for "reverse", a reverse mirror is lftp-speak for "upload".

Example graphical user interface, Cyberduck on Mac OSX:

For UCSC Wranglers

On cirm01, create the user:

   sudo /data/create-user username

To change password of user:

   sudo /data/change-password username

The new user is created with their homedir as:

   /data/sftp/user/incoming

You have read access to those directories.