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  • scp, sftp, rsync - these are automatically installed on Mac and Linux

  • pscp, psftp - Windows-only. These can be installed with the PuTTY ssh program.

  • ftp - available on O2 for downloading from external sites which only accept FTP logins. But, O2 does not accept incoming FTP logins.

  • asperaa data transport and streaming technology, now owned by IBM.

  • awscli - Amazon AWS command line interface

  • basemount - an Illumina tool to mount BaseSpace Sequence Hub data.

  • bbcp - a point-to-point network file copy application from NERSC

  • lftp - can transfer files via FTPFTPSHTTPHTTPSFISHSFTPBitTorrent, and FTP over HTTP proxy.

  • gcloud - Google Cloud command line interface, including the gsutil command

  • NBIA Data Retriever - a tool for downloading data from the TCIA Data Portal , installed under /opt/NBIADataRetriever

  • rclone - rsync for cloud storage

  • Globus - If the other side support Globus


For graphical tools, see the documentation that came with the program. Also, see our instructions on how to use these tools with two-factor auth. Many tools will by default copy somewhere in your /home directory, which has a small 100GB storage quota. Make sure to explicitly specify whether you want to copy there or to a different location like: /n/scratch3/users/m/mfk8/

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