Aepera quick setup

Aspera is IBM’s high-performance file transfer software which allows for the transfer large files and data sets with predictable, reliable and secure delivery regardless of file size or transfer distance from a site which has the aspera server running. The NCBI recommend the use of aspera for transfer of data sets from their site.

One-time initial setup

wget https://download.asperasoft.com/download/sw/cli/3.9.2/ibm-aspera-cli-3.9.2.1426.c59787a-linux-64-release.sh
bash ibm-aspera-cli-3.9.2.1426.c59787a-linux-64-release.sh
echo 'export PATH=~/.aspera/cli/bin/:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Copy from a remote server to local HPC directory

ascp -QT -l 100M user@source_hostname:source_file /local/destination/folder/

• -T Disable encryption for maximum throughput
• -l max_rate

For a full list of ascp options, check this link