Use proxy FTP transfers carefully and understand the warnings about using this capability incorrectly. A mistake can truncate your files in the PSC archive. Always write protect your data on golem-97.psc.edu before doing any transfers. You must know your username and password on the PSC systems. You must have an active account at NCSA and access to the NCSA archival system or to an NCSA production computational platform.
Transfer rates are subject to the load on the systems and the intervening network.
In this document the golem-97 hostname is used, but either of the other two can also be used albeit with lower performance. Or you can use any NCSA computational platforms. Proxy FTP can be used to transfer data directly from the PSC archival system to the NCSA archival system. Warnings Whichever transfer method you select to get your files from PSC to NCSA, you should be very careful to protect your data at PSC from inadvertent truncation. Use the chmod command to make your files read-only at PSC before you start with any method.