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On 29 Jun 2000, Peter Stoehr wrote:

Hi Folks,

> Release 63 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from:
> the EBI ftp server and other mirror sites below:
>   
>   ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release           (UK)
>   ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl               (Denmark)
>   ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release       (Spain)
> 

how long does it normally take to download the full release? (This is the
fifth day for me between Hinxton and B'ham. :((()

miklos

Miklos Cserzo                                     University of Birmingham
c/o School of Biosciences                     MRC - Bioinformatics Project
Tel: +44-121-414-3037                  Schools of Biosciences and Medicine
Fax: +44-121-414-3982                        Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
E-mail: miklos@bip.bham.ac.uk                               United Kingdom

On 6 Jul 2000, Miklos Cserzo wrote:

> 
> 
> On 29 Jun 2000, Peter Stoehr wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> > Release 63 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from:
> > the EBI ftp server and other mirror sites below:
> >   
> >   ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release           (UK)
> >   ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl               (Denmark)
> >   ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release       (Spain)
> > 
> 
> how long does it normally take to download the full release? (This is the
> fifth day for me between Hinxton and B'ham. :((()

>From personal experience of downloading EMBL (or more specifically just
downloading the plant sequences in EMBL) I would say that it will take a
*long* time if you try and download it during the day, during the week.
If you can schedule to try and download it at the weekend, it can make a
big difference and you *should* be able to download the entire database.

I think that database growth is still exceeding developments in bandwidth
though so this might get worse before it gets better.

Keith

~  Keith Bradnam - Developer, Arabidopsis Genome Resource (AGR)
~  Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre - http://nasc.nott.ac.uk/
~  University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
~  Tel: (0115) 951 3091 

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When I first tried downloading from the ebi site, I was only seeing 2-4K/sec,
and after two days I killed the download.  The next day I switched to the
Danish site and got transfers of 230-300K/sec and got the entire release in
one working day (last Wednesday, during normal business hours).  Try the
mirrors and see if your speed inproves.

Keith Bradnam wrote:

> On 6 Jul 2000, Miklos Cserzo wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 29 Jun 2000, Peter Stoehr wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > > Release 63 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from:
> > > the EBI ftp server and other mirror sites below:
> > >
> > >   ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release           (UK)
> > >   ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl               (Denmark)
> > >   ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release       (Spain)
> > >
> >
> > how long does it normally take to download the full release? (This is the
> > fifth day for me between Hinxton and B'ham. :((()
>
> >From personal experience of downloading EMBL (or more specifically just
> downloading the plant sequences in EMBL) I would say that it will take a
> *long* time if you try and download it during the day, during the week.
> If you can schedule to try and download it at the weekend, it can make a
> big difference and you *should* be able to download the entire database.
>
> I think that database growth is still exceeding developments in bandwidth
> though so this might get worse before it gets better.
>
> Keith
>
> ~  Keith Bradnam - Developer, Arabidopsis Genome Resource (AGR)
> ~  Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre - http://nasc.nott.ac.uk/
> ~  University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
> ~  Tel: (0115) 951 3091

--
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Molecular Biology Computing Support
University of Virginia, ITC-ACHS
P.O. Box 800777
Charlottesville, VA
22908-0777
voice: (804)982-4039
fax: (804)982-4030
mblack@virginia.edu
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That's good news about the use of the Danish site, and we will put more effort
into establishing more mirror sites at strategic network locations. We have had
over 150 sites now downloading the full release from EBI alone, about 600GB to
shift, and although we will soon improve our network connection further, it
will be important to get several accurate copies of releases (and updates) out
there to spread the load.

Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL-EBI
 
Michael Black wrote:
> 
> When I first tried downloading from the ebi site, I was only seeing 2-4K/sec,
> and after two days I killed the download.  The next day I switched to the
> Danish site and got transfers of 230-300K/sec and got the entire release in
> one working day (last Wednesday, during normal business hours).  Try the
> mirrors and see if your speed inproves.
> 
> Keith Bradnam wrote:
> 
> > On 6 Jul 2000, Miklos Cserzo wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 29 Jun 2000, Peter Stoehr wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > > Release 63 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from:
> > > > the EBI ftp server and other mirror sites below:
> > > >
> > > >   ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release           (UK)
> > > >   ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl               (Denmark)
> > > >   ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release       (Spain)
> > > >
> > >
> > > how long does it normally take to download the full release? (This is the
> > > fifth day for me between Hinxton and B'ham. :((()
> >
> > >From personal experience of downloading EMBL (or more specifically just
> > downloading the plant sequences in EMBL) I would say that it will take a
> > *long* time if you try and download it during the day, during the week.
> > If you can schedule to try and download it at the weekend, it can make a
> > big difference and you *should* be able to download the entire database.
> >
> > I think that database growth is still exceeding developments in bandwidth
> > though so this might get worse before it gets better.
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > ~  Keith Bradnam - Developer, Arabidopsis Genome Resource (AGR)
> > ~  Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre - http://nasc.nott.ac.uk/
> > ~  University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
> > ~  Tel: (0115) 951 3091
> 
> --
> Michael Black, Ph.D.
> Molecular Biology Computing Support
> University of Virginia, ITC-ACHS
> P.O. Box 800777
> Charlottesville, VA
> 22908-0777
> voice: (804)982-4039
> fax: (804)982-4030
> mblack@virginia.edu
> --