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For the initial upload, a GUI tool called BucketExplorer (http://www.bucketexplorer.com/) is used. Uploads are done from the internal host fremont.fhcrc.org using the local access account 'platform', with the same password as the platform@sagebase.org account. The most efficient way to connect is to use an NX protocol client (http://www.nomachine.com/download.php) to get a virtual desktop as the user platform. Once connected the preconfigured BucketExplorer can be found in the application menu in the lower left corner of the screen.
Mac OSX Users I installed "NX Client for Mac OSX" but it complained that I was missing bin/nxssh and bin/nxservice. That stuff was not installed under Applications but instead under /Users/deflaux/usr/NX/
The initial datasets are stored in /work/platform/. This entire collection is mirrored exactly and can transfered by dragging and dropping into the data01.sagebase.org s3 bucket. This operation should be done as user platform, as all files should be readable by said user to facilitate the transfer.
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