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For linux/Unix/Mac system, we can use a command-line tool 'scp' to transferfiles between your laptop and Amazon instance. Also we can use a GUI tool'FileZilla' to do the transfer, which is more user-friendly.
Using scp to transfer data¶
Even if your device has 3G capabilities, Amazon will only transfer files over Whispernet when Wi-Fi itself is on. If you don't have Wi-Fi turned on, you'll receive a reminder document onto your device telling you that your documents are queued and ready to be transferred and that the documents will be transferred once you turn on Wi-Fi.
'scp' means 'secure copy', which can copy files between computers on a network.You can use this tool in a Terminal on a Unix/Linux/Mac system.
To upload a file from your laptop to Amazon instance:
This command will upload a file - MS115.fa in your ~/Desktop/ folder ofyour laptop to folder ~/data/ on an Amazon instance. Note you still need touse the private key you used to connect to the Amazon instance with ssh. (Inthis example, it is the amazon.pem file in ~/Desktop/.
Note: You need to make sure that the user 'ubuntu' has the permission towrite in the target directory. In this example, if ~/data/ was created by user'ubuntu', it should be fine.
Similarly, to download a file from Amazon instance to your laptop:
This command will download a file /data/ecoli_ref-5m-trim.fastq.gz fromAmazon instance to your ~/Download folder in your laptop.
Note: You can use asterisk(*) to download multiple files, like *.fasta.gz.
Using FileZilla to transfer data¶
If you want a more user-friendly tool to transfer data, FileZilla is agood choice. It is free, it supports Windows/Linux/Mac systems, and it has agood user interface. It supports FTP, SFTP and other file transferprotocols.
Firstly, go to ‘https://filezilla-project.org/‘ and click 'Download FileZillaClient' button to download it.
The interface of FileZilla is like this:
If you want to use FileZila to upload to or download data from a normalFTP server if you have the user and password, just put the information in the'Host', 'Username', 'Password' box and connect.However for Amazon instance, we use key-pair to log ininstead of password for better safety. So it is a little bit more complicatedto configure.
Open 'Settings' and click 'SFTP':
Click 'Add keyfile...':
Then select the '.pem' file you used to connect to Amazon instance with ssh.
There is a dialog box to ask you if you want to convert the '.pem' fileinto a supported format. Click 'Yes'.
Name it with extension as '.ppk' and save it.
You will see the a private key has been added.
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Close 'Settings' and go back to the main interface.
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Click button to open the site manager.
Click 'New Site'.
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Put the Amazon instance URL like ec2-54-166-128-20.compute-1.amazonaws.comin the 'Host' box. Set 'Protocol' as 'SFTP', 'Logon Type' as 'Normal','User' as 'ubuntu' and leave 'Password' as blank. Then click 'Connect'.
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There will be a dialogue box to ask you about 'Unknown host key', just click'Ok'.
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All right. Now you have logged in the Amazon instance. You can drag and dropto transfer the files between the remote machine and your local laptop.
