Transfert de fichiers avec Aspera Connect/ascp

ascp est un logiciel utilisé pour transférer des données en provenance et à destination de serveurs de transfert Aspera sur lesquels vous détenez une licence, par exemple pour télécharger un jeu de données dans un dépôt de données.

Many transfer servers will require an up-to-date version of the software (now called Aspera Connect). Due to changes in the software, you may need to install this updated version locally. Please see below for details.

ascp 3.5.4

This software is available as a module in older software stacks.

If the server you are trying to transfer data to is incompatible with this older version, you may get an error such as

Error with Aspera:

ascp: failed to authenticate, exiting.

Session Stop  (Error: failed to authenticate)

Aspera Connect/ascp 4+

In order to use Aspera Connect (formerly ascp) you will need to install it in one of your local directories.

1. Copy the link for the latest Linux version of the software from the Aspera connect website.

2. Go to the directory where you want to install the software, e.g. your /home directory.

3. Download the software in this directory with wget.

wget link-i-copied-here

4. Extract the software from the archive.

tar -zxf ibm-aspera-connect_some_version_linux.tar.gz

5. Lancez le script d'installation.

bash ibm-aspera-connect_some_version_linux.sh

6. Run the setrpaths script.

setrpaths.sh --path $HOME/.aspera