Re: [galaxy-dev] Want faster dataset import

2013-09-25 Thread Dannon Baker
Have you tried to use data libraries for this? There's an import mechanism there that'll allow you to simply link to the file on disk without copy/upload. I believe the "example_watch_folder.py" sample script (in the distribution) does just this via the API, if you want an example. On Mon, Sep

[galaxy-dev] Want faster dataset import

2013-09-23 Thread Ted Goldstein
I want to frequently import many tens of thousands of datasets. The files are on the same sever as Galaxy. But the upload based mechanism is really really slow. It takes hours to load this many files, yet the data is not moving at all! What is the best strategy to go about making a faster bulk