<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jan<div><br></div><div>Have you tried rsync. Info on using it is here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/data/ftp/rsync.html">http://www.ensembl.org/info/data/ftp/rsync.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br><div><div>On 26 Oct 2013, at 22:55, Jan Vogel <<a href="mailto:jan.vogel@gmail.com">jan.vogel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hello Ensembl, <br><br>I'm trying to download some data (variation + core ) from the Ensembl FTP site but I get time outs when trying to download the compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz<br>file. <br><br>Is anyone else experiencing problems ? I'm connecting to <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/">ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/</a><br><br>The download speed is generally pretty slow - any chance to hook up a mirror on the amazon cloud for the guys out here in the west of the US ? <br>I also tried to fire up an AWS image in the Amazon cloud as I was hoping to 'ssh onto the machine and download the data from there - no success either. <br><br>Thanks,<br><br> Jan Vogel <br><br><br><br>==> RETR compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... done.<br>Length: 37223997714 (35G), 30828838554 (29G) remaining<br><br>18% [++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=> ] 6,751,368,500 --.-K/s in 74m 58s<br><br>2013-10-25 13:46:00 (77.3 KB/s) - Data connection: Connection timed out; Control connection closed.<br>Retrying.<br><br>--2013-10-25 14:01:10-- <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37/compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz">ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37/compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz</a><br> (try:18) => `compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz.1'<br>Connecting to <a href="http://ftp.ensembl.org/">ftp.ensembl.org</a>|193.62.203.85|:21... connected.<br>Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!<br>==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.<br>==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37 ... done.<br>==> SIZE compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... 37223997714<br>==> PASV ... done. ==> REST 6751368500 ... done.<br>==> RETR compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... done.<br>Length: 37223997714 (35G), 30472629214 (28G) remaining<br><br>19% [++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++> ] 7,114,223,760 --.-K/s in 74m 58s<br><br>2013-10-25 15:16:10 (78.8 KB/s) - Data connection: Connection timed out; Control connection closed.<br>Retrying.<br><br>--2013-10-25 15:31:20-- <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37/compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz">ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37/compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz</a><br> (try:19) => `compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz.1'<br>Connecting to <a href="http://ftp.ensembl.org/">ftp.ensembl.org</a>|193.62.203.85|:21... connected.<br>Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!<br>==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.<br>==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37 ... done.<br>==> SIZE compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... 37223997714<br>==> PASV ... done. ==> REST 7114223760 ... done.<br>==> RETR compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... done.<br>Length: 37223997714 (35G), 30109773954 (28G) remaining<br><br>20% [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=> ] 7,497,116,060 --.-K/s in 75m 0s<br><br>2013-10-25 16:46:22 (83.1 KB/s) - Data connection: Connection timed out; Control connection closed.<br>Retrying.<br><br>--2013-10-25 17:01:32-- <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37/compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz">ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37/compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz</a><br> (try:20) => `compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz.1'<br>Connecting to <a href="http://ftp.ensembl.org/">ftp.ensembl.org</a>|193.62.203.85|:21... connected.<br>Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!<br>==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.<br>==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/current_mysql/homo_sapiens_variation_73_37 ... done.<br>==> SIZE compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... 37223997714<br>==> PASV ... done. ==> REST 7497116060 ... done.<br>==> RETR compressed_genotype_var.txt.gz ... done.<br>Length: 37223997714 (35G), 29726881654 (28G) remaining<br><br>21% [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=> ] 7,868,484,580 --.-K/s in 74m 59s<br><br>2013-10-25 18:16:34 (80.6 KB/s) - Data connection: Connection timed out; Control connection closed.<br>Giving up.<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Dev mailing list <a href="mailto:Dev@ensembl.org">Dev@ensembl.org</a><br>Posting guidelines and subscribe/unsubscribe info: <a href="http://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev">http://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev</a><br>Ensembl Blog: <a href="http://www.ensembl.info/">http://www.ensembl.info/</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>