Data Transfer Using Globus

Globus Research Drive Access
Transfer Errors
Endpoint management
Performance

Transfer data between UoA and other NZ locations

You can use globus to transfer data between your research drive and NeSI and other associated NZ public globus endpoints
NeSI: General globus introduction
NeSI: globus transfers

Transfer data between an institutional globus endpoint and your workstation

Using GlobusConnectPersonal, you can create a personal endpoint on your workstation or Nectar vm, add your computer to globus

and transfer data between that endpoint and any NZ institutional endpoint in exactly the same way: Nectar vm data-transfers

University of Auckland Research Drive Access

If you have not previously transferred files to or from a University of Auckland Globus endpoint, you need to request access from Centre for eResearch. Please submit globus access to your research-drive

Access your research drive on the Data Transfer Node (DTN) either by using the link University of Auckland Research Data Collection or . searching the FileManager for the collection “University of Auckland Research Data Collection”.

Once you have logged in (UoA Single-Sign-On), navigate to your research drive from “/home/<your_upi>”, or “/~/” for short.

or to “/~/”:

File-transfer documentation

Very good documentation at File transfer

Transfer Errors

You can inspect the logs for your globus transfers from the console in globus:

Select the Activity tab on the LHS of the globus page and then select the job that you want to investigate.
Select the Event Log tab (highlighted) and view the Fault Events for that job. You may be able to see the problem with your transfer here. If this raises issues you can’t control, please get in touch with Centre for eResearch.

Performance

Please read Data Transfer Best Practices

Data Transfer between two personal globus endpoints

Transferring files between two computers