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Problem Creating Pdb Mirror

Hi

I'm having trouble creating a pdb mirror. I can't connecto to the pdb rsynch server. If I enter this:

rsync  rsync.wwpdb.org::

or

rsync -rlptv --delete-after --port=334444 rsync.wwpdb.org::ftp/data/structures/divided/pdb/ ~/wwpdb/divided/pdb/

I get:

rsync: failed to connect to rsync.wwpdb.org: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.7]

I don't know if its because the server is actually down or because I'm doing something wrong.

I'm not that confident with the structure of the pdb. If i download these files from the ftp site

ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/structures/divided/pdb/

I think thats the same as the structures in the rsync path: ftp/data/structures/divided/pdb/

as the rsync top level ftp directory = /pub/pdb according to this site: http://www.wwpdb.org/downloads.html

So if the rsync server is down I could ftp.

Any help much appreciated

thanks

pdb
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updated by Ram Ram • written by Andrea_Bio • Andrea_Bio

If you are behind a firewall, you may need a HTTP_PROXY environment variable to bypass the firewall.

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written by Khader Shameer Khader Shameer

1 answer

I tried this command and I can download the PDB files using rsync.

rsync -rlpt -v -z --delete --port=33444 rsync.wwpdb.org::ftp_data/structures/divided/pdb/ ./pdb

This is what happened

[suk211@statmech7 test]$ rsync -rlpt -v -z --delete --port=33444 \
> rsync.wwpdb.org::ftp_data/structures/divided/pdb/ ./pdb
receiving file list ... done
created directory ./pdb
./
00/
00/pdb100d.ent.gz
00/pdb200d.ent.gz
00/pdb200l.ent.gz
00/pdb300d.ent.gz
00/pdb400d.ent.gz

For more information refer this link http://www.wwpdb.org/downloads.html

Hope this helps.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Suk211 • Suk211

thanks for looking. the instructions that I am following specifically say i have to download from the path I have given in my query. Can you download from that path?

rsync.wwpdb.org::ftp/data/structures/divided/pdb/

My instructions also so the trailing slash at the end of the path is important.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Andrea_Bio • Andrea_Bio

thanks for looking. the instructions that I am following specifically say i have to download from the path I have given in my query. Can you download from this path: rsync.wwpdb.org::ftp/data/structures/divided/pdb/

My instructions also say the trailing slash at the end of the path is important.

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written by Andrea_Bio • Andrea_Bio

This just worked for me:

rsync -rlpt -v -z --delete --port=33444  rsync.wwpdb.org::ftp/data/structures/divided/pdb/ ~/wwpdb/divided/pdb/

and my original command still doesn't work. I don't really see why one should work and not the other.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Andrea_Bio • Andrea_Bio

If the answer solves your question, please mark it as such.

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written by Egon Willighagen Egon Willighagen

Isn't the answer the fact I had a typing error in my original command which I didn't spot. I had a port number 334444. I'd typed an extra 4.

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written by Andrea_Bio • Andrea_Bio

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