Difference between revisions of "Data Transfer"

From bwHPC Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(Transfer Tools)
(Transfer Tools)
(4 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 4: Line 4:
 
|-
 
|-
 
! rowspan="2" | Type
 
! rowspan="2" | Type
! style="width:10%" rowspan="2" | Software
+
! rowspan="2" | Software
! style="width:10%" rowspan="2" | Remarks
+
! rowspan="2" | Remarks
! style="width:10%" colspan="4" style="text-align:center" | Executable on
+
! colspan="4" style="text-align:center" | Executable on
! style="width:10%" colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Transfer from/to
+
! colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Transfer from/to
 
|-
 
|-
 
!Local°
 
!Local°
Line 14: Line 14:
 
!www
 
!www
 
!bwHPC cluster
 
!bwHPC cluster
![[Sds-hd|SDS@hd]]
+
![[SDS@hd]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
| rowspan="5" | Command-line
 
| rowspan="5" | Command-line
| scp
+
! scp
 
| rowspan="3" | Throughput < 150 MB/s (depending on cipher)
 
| rowspan="3" | Throughput < 150 MB/s (depending on cipher)
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
Line 26: Line 26:
 
| style="text-align:center" |
 
| style="text-align:center" |
 
|-
 
|-
| sftp
+
! sftp
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
Line 34: Line 34:
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
|-
 
|-
| rsync
+
! rsync
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
Line 42: Line 42:
 
| style="text-align:center" |
 
| style="text-align:center" |
 
|-
 
|-
| rdata
+
! rdata
 
| Throughput of 350-400 MB/s
 
| Throughput of 350-400 MB/s
 
|
 
|
Line 51: Line 51:
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
|-
 
|-
| wget
+
! wget
 
| Download from http/ftp address only
 
| Download from http/ftp address only
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
Line 61: Line 61:
 
|-
 
|-
 
| rowspan="2" | Graphical
 
| rowspan="2" | Graphical
| [https://winscp.net/eng/download.php WinSCP]
+
! [https://winscp.net/eng/download.php WinSCP]
 
| based on SCP/SFTP, Windows only
 
| based on SCP/SFTP, Windows only
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
Line 70: Line 70:
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
|-
 
|-
| [https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 FileZilla]
+
! [https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 FileZilla]
 
| based on SFTP
 
| based on SFTP
 
| style="text-align:center" | +
 
| style="text-align:center" | +

Revision as of 17:50, 19 August 2022

1 Transfer Tools

Type Software Remarks Executable on Transfer from/to
Local° bwUniCluster bwForCluster www bwHPC cluster SDS@hd
Command-line scp Throughput < 150 MB/s (depending on cipher) + + + +
sftp + + + + +
rsync + + + +
rdata Throughput of 350-400 MB/s + +
wget Download from http/ftp address only + + + +
Graphical WinSCP based on SCP/SFTP, Windows only + + +
FileZilla based on SFTP + + +

° Depending on the installed operating system (OS).

2 Linux/Unix/Mac commandline sftp/scp Usage Examples

2.1 sftp

> sftp  ka_xy1234@bwfilestorage.lsdf.kit.edu
Connecting to bwfilestorage.lsdf.kit.edu<br>
ka_xy1234@bwfilestorage.lsdf.kit.edu's password: 
sftp> ls
snapshots
temp test
sftp> help
...
sftp> put myfile
sftp> get myfile

2.2 scp

> scp mylocalfile ul_xy1234@justus.uni-ulm.de: # copies to home directory

3 Using SFTP from Windows and Mac graphical clients

Windows clients do not have a SCP/SFTP client installed by default, so it needs to be installed before this protocol can be used.

Tools for example:


network drive over SFTP:

4 Best practices

4.1 Ciphers

Encrypting all the transferred data via scp/sftp takes time, which can become significant for really large data transfers.

In these cases, you can choose a faster encryption cipher to speed up that part of your data transfer via options to ssh/sftp. In our tests, these ciphers have had the listed transfer speedups over the default. If speedups are noticeable for you depends on processor type, network connection and the used hard disk.

Cipher performance
chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com (default) 100%
aes128-gcm@openssh.com ~200%
aes128-ctr ~188%

With ssh/sshfs you can use different ciphers with the -c option:

ssh -c aes128-gcm@openssh.com

A list of available ciphers should be available with the command

ssh -Q cipher