Question: Import Local Files
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Ryan Golhar • 80 wrote:
Hi - I recently discovered Galaxy and am just getting started with
it...
I installed a local instance to test with NGS data.
We have a lot of NGS datasets (both Solid and illumina) on a SAN
available via NFS. Each user that has data has an account on the
system
in a directory tree such as:
/ngsdata/user1
/ngsdata/user2
/ngsdata/project1
/ngsdata/project2
where user1 and user2 are distinct users with their own dataset, and
project1, project2 contain datasets shared by multiple users.
I want to import this data in Galaxy and I came across this thread in
the mailing list (quoted below).
I set up my Galaxy instance to see this NFS share...btw Galaxy is
running as its own user on a virtual machine. The Galaxy user only
has
read access to this read and nothing else.
When I went to import the files by specifying a local system path on
the
admin user interface, I got errors importing the data. I checked the
paster.log file and I saw errors related to galaxy trying to change
the
permissions of the files to 0644.
Does this mean all the files need to be owned by Galaxy?
Old thread:
Hello Andreas,
The best approach to handle this is to have a Galaxy administrator
upload the files into a library, creating library datasets. Set the
following config setting to point to the NFS accessible directory you
use to contain the files:
# Directories of files contained in the following directory can be
uploaded to a library from the Admin view
library_import_dir = /var/opt/galaxy/import
You can set ACCESS permissions on the library to restrict access to
specific users, or leave it public to allow anyone to access the
library
datasets.
Users can import the library datasets into their own histories for
analysis - doing this does not create another disk file, but simply a
"pointer" to the library dataset's disk file.
Greg Von Kuster
Galaxy Development Team