This short tutorial explains how to transfer files from ECMWF to ICTP for the workshop.
Before you begin
You must have been given a training account username and a security token password generator in order to log into ECMWF computers.
On the ICTP classroom PC, make sure you download any files to the 'data_local' directory in metview/oifs2017.
This directory 'data_local' should ideally be a link to a directory on /scratch as the filespace quota is quite small in the user home directory.
Transfer files from ECMWF CCA to ICTP classroom PC
We'll assume that you have some files scratch/ob01/2015110100/mmeans/, for example, oif_ob01_u_20151101_00.grib that you want to transfer from the ECMWF Cray computer, host 'cca'.
First, we'll create the ftp connection using sftp and then navigate to the correct directory:
Example sequence (replace with your training ID username!)
sftp troifs0@ecaccess.ecmwf.int Authorized access only. *************************************************************** For further information, read the ECaccess documentation at: https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/ECAC/ECaccess+Home You can also use ECaccess to load & download files from your EChome, ECscratch or ECfs directories using the ECaccess FTP server: ftp://uid@ecaccess.ecmwf.int/ Please note you must use your UID and ActivID code to login! *************************************************************** troifs0@140.105.20.128's password: Connected to ecaccess.ecmwf.int. sftp> ls ECFS ECHOME ECHOST ECJOBS ECMARS ECSCRATCH ECTMP sftp> cd ECHOST sftp> ls cca ecgate sftp> cd cca sftp> cd scratch/ectrain/troifs0/ob01/2015110100/mmeans/ sftp> get oif_ob01_u_20151101_00.grib sftp> bye
To transfer more than 1 file at once.. e.g.
sftp> mget oif_ob01_*.grib