Is it possible to specify the download folder to be on the server hosting the galaxy instance?

Question: Is it possible to specify the download folder to be on the server hosting the galaxy instance?

19 months ago by

Guy Reeves • 1.0k

Germany

Guy Reeves • 1.0k wrote:

I would like to know if it possible to for an administartor to specify (presumably in some config file) that when a user presses the download button, the file is not downloaded to the hard drive they are currently working on to a folder on the same server.

This would be really useful for our users. I know there are export options and wget commands but we find this unreliable with very large files- for reasons which are not clear to us. Cheers

Guy

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modified 12 months ago • written 19 months ago by Guy Reeves • 1.0k

Thanks .Yes a suppose a it would be a reverse FTP. Can I ask, when you select the' export history to file' where is the file actually generated? I think as files become bigger and bigger the users hard drive looks less and less attractive to download to.

Unfortunately tool development is beyond me .

Thanks

Guy

ADD REPLY • link written 19 months ago by Guy Reeves • 1.0k

@Martin or anybody else who can point me in the right direction.

We are thinking about adapting this tool ‘bundle_collections’ but have no idea how to make a galaxy tool point outside itself. do you have any idea how we might do this? Thanks Guy

ADD REPLY • link written 19 months ago by Guy Reeves • 1.0k

I would try asking the IUC at gitter.im/galaxy-iuc/iuc or their repo https://github.com/galaxyproject/tools-iuc/

Those are some of the best tool devs, they will know better than myself.

ADD REPLY • link written 19 months ago by Martin Čech ♦♦ 4.9k

Thanks I have posted a question to the great tool developers

https://github.com/galaxyproject/tools-iuc/issues/1295

ADD REPLY • link modified 19 months ago • written 19 months ago by Guy Reeves • 1.0k

it was already being worked on

https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/2968

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19 months ago by

Martin Čech ♦♦ 4.9k

United States

Martin Čech ♦♦ 4.9k wrote:

Do you mean something like a reverse FTP/library import? I do not think we have such thing readily configurable.

You could write a custom Galaxy tool for this I think. (Or add this feature to Galaxy obviously.)

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18 months ago by

Guy Reeves • 1.0k

Germany

Guy Reeves • 1.0k wrote:

it could be that this tool is the answer

https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/earlhaminst/export_to_cluster/

came from this board

https://github.com/galaxyproject/tools-iuc/issues/1295

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12 months ago by

Guy Reeves • 1.0k

Germany

Guy Reeves • 1.0k wrote:

Update nothing came of the tool request and the tool mentioned above looks perfect but there is no help about how to use it ( I did contact the author a few times about writing a very short description of how to set up the tool) https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/earlhaminst/export_to_cluster/

I continue to use https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repository?repository_id=d077871367f67b47

Which works well. But it will not work if you have '/' in your dataset names and probably spaces would be a problem.

Hope this is useful to someone. Cheers

guy

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