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Globus

Globus is convenient tool for data sharing between institutes and fairly easy to set up.

Get an account

You can use HKU's account to login to globus directly. You can also create an account with your personal email, information.

Setup an end-point

  1. Create an end-point in the website: https://app.globus.org/file-manager/gcp Then you will have a key for this end-point.

  2. Install globus on the server, please follow the official instructions For example the v3:

    wget https://downloads.globus.org/globus-connect-personal/v3/linux/stable/globusconnectpersonal-latest.tgz
tar xvzf globusconnectpersonal-latest.tgz

    Then you can setup the key of your end-point:

    globusconnectpersonal-3.0.3/globusconnectpersonal -setup $YOUR_KEY

    Now, you can launch it with specify the restrict paths (default is $HOME)

    globusconnectpersonal-3.0.3/globusconnectpersonal -start -restrict-paths /storage/YourFolder

Share a path to others

You need to purchase the subscription of Globus for sharing data out.