Working with data on Swestore from Tetralith

Access methods

The Swestore documentation describes several protocols for acessing data on Swestore. Here is a guide how to work with data on Swestore using rclone from Tetralith. Rclone is available on log in nodes as well as on compute nodes on Tetralith. The full rclone documentation can be found here.

Browsing data on Swestore

It is possible to browse the Swestore storage through a web-page interface: https://webdav.swestore.se/snic/bolinc/. Data can also be downloaded from this web page. Username and password is required for access.

Setting up rclone for Swestore

Instructions for how to configure rclone for Swestore con be found on the Swestore documentation page. Certificates are not needed, so follow the instructions for Username/Password authentiction.

Basic rclone usage

List directories

rclone lsd swestore:/snic/bolinc

Copy directories to Swestore

rclone copy -P /path/to/src swestore:/snic/bolinc/DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/src

Copy directories from Swestore

rclone copy -P swestore:/snic/bolinc/SOURCE_DIRECTORY/src /path/to/src

Script templates for fetching data from Swestore

Script exaples for processing data on Swestore can be found here:

https://github.com/annlew/Swestore-support