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==Partial Mirrors==
==Partial Mirrors==


A complete mirror of all assemblies requires a large amount of disk space (currently on the order of a terabyte).  However, it is not too difficult to set things up so that only a portion of assemblies are mirrored.  The following scripts are used for this purpose at http://browser-mirror.bscb.cornell.edu.
A complete mirror of all assemblies requires a large amount of disk space (currently on the order of a terabyte).  However, it is not too difficult to set things up so that only a portion of assemblies are mirrored.  The following scripts are used for this purpose at Cornell (http://browser-mirror.bscb.cornell.edu).
 
* [[Media:doDownloads.sh]] - Script for downloading selected files from hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu
* [[Media:doUpdateDb.sh]] - Script for updating local mysql database with downloaded files.
* [[Media:databases]] - File identifying which databases to mirror.
* [[Media:gbdb.exclude]] - File identifying directories to be excluded when rsyncing /gbdb.

Revision as of 14:42, 10 August 2006

This page contains information for users interested in mirroring the UCSC Genome Browser on their own servers. See also http://genome.ucsc.edu/mirror.html

Partial Mirrors

A complete mirror of all assemblies requires a large amount of disk space (currently on the order of a terabyte). However, it is not too difficult to set things up so that only a portion of assemblies are mirrored. The following scripts are used for this purpose at Cornell (http://browser-mirror.bscb.cornell.edu).