Moving data from the WBIC to the CBU unix machines

See: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/site/public/?title=linux-sftp

Note - you may get a message like ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host; this might be because there are currently too many connections - http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/000604.html - or it may not

To get individual files

From a unix shell on the CBU system:

sftp yourwbicusername@gate1.wbic.cam.ac.uk

From there you can ls, get help with ? and copy files with:

> get a_wbic_file

and get lots of files with:

> get a_wbic_directory/*

To get directories etc

Use scp. For example:

scp -r yourwbicusername@gate1.wbic.cam.ac.uk:my_directory .

will copy the wbic directory my_directory and all files below to your current working directory (.)

And delete the files you've fetched

Check you have really got the data you think you have transferred, then:

Use ssh:

ssh yourwbicusername@gate1.wbic.cam.ac.uk
rm -rf my_directory

MatthewBrett