Data transfer

F*EX Service

The F*EX service (Referred to as FEX) allows you to share large datasets with collaborators. You can automatically register for this service as long as you have a uga.edu active email address and can sign-on to the UGA VPN.

Registration

• You have to have an active uga.edu email address
• You have to sign on to the UGA archpass VPN (The registration is only allowed when you are connected to the VPN, you can still send and receive data when you are not connected ot the VPN)
• Go to FEX Registration and sign up for an account. Use your uga.edu email address
• You will get an email from the service with a link to confirm your request.
• Visit the confirmation link sent in the email to confirm your request.
• After confirmation is successful, you will see the following info Save the info that you see in on the webpage:
  • FEX Account direct URL for your account
  • FEX Server URL (Always https://fex.gacrc.uga.edu/fup/)
  • Sender (Your email address)
  • auth-ID (Keep this to yourself)
    • If you decide to change this auth-ID at a later data, PLEASE, DO NOT USE YOUR MYID PASSWORD. USE A DIFFERENT PASSWORD UNIQUE TO THIS SERVICE.

Accessing the FEX service from a web browser

• You can visit your unique FEX Account direct URL that you saved from the request confirmation page when you registered.
• Or, you can go to F*EX Service and enter your email and auth-ID.

Accessing the FEX service from GACRC (Xfer nodes)

The FEX command line clients are installed on all GACRC xfer nodes. Make sure that you use your email and auth-ID instead of mine at the highlighted spots below.

raj76@xfer4:~$ fexsend -I
F*EX server URL: https://fex.gacrc.uga.edu
proxy address (hostname:port or empty if none): 
Your e-mail address as registered at https://fex.gacrc.uga.edu: raj76@uga.edu
Your auth-ID for raj76@uga.edu at https://fex.gacrc.uga.edu: MY_PRIVATE_AUTH_ID
data written to /home/raj76/.fex/id

You can then send any file or directory using the fexsend command. To send a file you use the command:

fexsend file_to_send email_of_recipients

email_of_recipients - Can be a comma separated list for multiple recipients.

To send a directory as a archive, use the following command:

 fexsend -a archive.tar Directory_to_send email_of_recipients