Globus Commands

Globus commands

User must create a grid proxy certificate using grid-proxy-init before trying to use any of these commands. Unlike the srm commands, the user does not need to specify the location of the proxy.

globus-url-copy

Third party transfers not permitted. See srm instead.

• Transfer a small file into the dCache:

  globus-url-copy -dbg -vb file:///usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt gsiftp://srm.epcc.ed.ac.uk/pnfs/epcc.ed.ac.uk/data/dteam/`date +Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.txt

• Transfer a large (i.e. >1GB) file using the -p (parallesim) option:

 globus-url-copy -dbg -vb -p 10 file:///scratch/large_file.tar gsiftp://srm.epcc.ed.ac.uk/pnfs/epcc.ed.ac.uk/data/dteam/large_file_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.txt

• Transfer a small file out of the dCache:

 globus-url-copy -dbg -vb gsiftp://srm.epcc.ed.ac.uk/pnfs/epcc.ed.ac.uk/data/dteam/testfile.txt file:///tmp/testfile.txt